NYTimes Charles Blow Opinion

[Rob Wick]

Quote:The undisputed fact is that President Abraham Lincoln’s August 14, 1862 one hour speech on a black colonization proposal to the Committee of five prominent free black men was unanimously well-received by the Committee members.

In what universe? The delegation was respectful, as one would expect anyone meeting with the President to be, but they did nothing to move Lincoln's plan forward. I would remind you that Eric Foner and George Frederickson were sharply critical of Lincoln's viewpoint long before Hannah Nikole-Jones arrived on the scene, with Foner referring to colonization as "Lincoln's support of a policy that might be called the ethnic cleansing of America... ." Frederickson, acknowledging Lincoln's belief in the humanity of African Americans, argued that colonization was a non-starter with both slaves and free blacks. Mark E. Neely Jr. called colonization "a profoundly racist movement" that offered "an all white country in the future."

You need to get over your obsession with Nikole-Jones.

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Rob