The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

innerSpaceman · 09-13-2010, 01:31 PM

Um, Leo, isn't that exactly what the Emancipation Proclamation was? I don't recall there being anything in there about less than full equality, or freedom for the "negroes" while support for Jim Crow laws and lynchings and no full civil rights for another century.

That may be what, in fact, happened - but I'm pretty sure Lincoln didn't stipulate to that in furtherance of his purported personal belief that negroes deserved partial equality only, because they were an inferior race of darkies.

I haven't read the E.P. in quite some time. Maybe I'm forgetting something.

09-13-2010, 01:31 PM	#11
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Um, Leo, isn't that exactly what the Emancipation Proclamation was? I don't recall there being anything in there about less than full equality, or freedom for the "negroes" while support for Jim Crow laws and lynchings and no full civil rights for another century. That may be what, in fact, happened - but I'm pretty sure Lincoln didn't stipulate to that in furtherance of his purported personal belief that negroes deserved partial equality only, because they were an inferior race of darkies. I haven't read the E.P. in quite some time. Maybe I'm forgetting something.
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