[Marxism] Lincoln's Black History

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> The New York Review of Books
> June 11, 2009
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> Lincoln's Black History
> By Garry Wills
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> Abraham Lincoln was born into a racist family, in a racist region of
> our country, during a racist era of our history. It would have been
> amazing if he had not begun his life as a racist. Piety toward his
> memory suppressed that fact for generations. Most of us wanted Lincoln
> to be free of racism, and we read the evidence to arrive at that
> conclusion. No one wanted that more than blacks. Henry Louis Gates,
> the Harvard professor, notes that blacks--from Booker T. Washington to
> Ralph Ellison--did even more than whites to enshrine Lincoln as 'the
> American philosopher-king and patron saint of race relations.' Gates
> writes of himself (born 1950), 'Like most African Americans of my
> generation, I was raised to believe that Lincoln hated slavery because
> he loved the slaves.' Black freedmen raised $17,000 for the 1876
> statue of Lincoln freeing the slaves that stands in Lincoln Park,
> Washington.
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full ---    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22750?email

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