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carterar24
MemberInteresting, Brion!
carterar24
MemberWhat does anyone think about the seattle times? ive had their app on my phone and found it a rather sane view a lot of times. Their facebook feed is a little odd, but there are articles i’ve read on the app that are not bad in terms of not really including too much opinion and having extra facts and any explanations compared to a lot of other sources. I will say i mostly just read their accounts of larger stories and do not read a lot of the smaller opinion pieces or such.
carterar24
Memberis this ever cited??? pretty intense!
http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/debate4.htm
“”I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied every thing. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. [Cheers and laughter.] My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife. So it seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes. I will add to this tat I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man, woman or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men.” – Abe Lincoln
carterar24
Memberinteresting argument going on in the comments section here about this issue….
carterar24
Memberinteresting argument going on in the comments section here about this issue….
carterar24
MemberI wish we had a thumbs up button for posts here that were helpful, to let you know we’re reading it and found it useful; however for the meantime I’ll just say, some great discussion here, thank you!
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