Don't put this on Lincoln, he wanted to ship every single one back to Africa. Liberia is the result of his success in this endeavor, but a Democrat actor shot him in the head before he could finish.
The irony being that if John Wilkes Booth saw the black community in America today, he’d be:
Horrified at the idea he inadvertently stopped Lincoln from shipping them off.
More certain than ever that his beliefs were correct.
Personally, I’m not with the “should have shipped them away” group; I think that if you look at, say, MLK’s marches, you’ll find plenty of nicely-dressed, well-mannered, well-spoken black people. If you look at marriage and family statistics from that time, black households were every bit as stable as white ones. So I think it’s clear that African-Americans have just as much potential to be good (or bad) as any other race.
But if you look at the modern parallel to those things, it becomes clear that something went horribly wrong. With all communities, certainly, because the rate of broken homes and gangbanger kids went up across the board—but it went up much more so in the black community. If the civil rights marches had all been like BLM’s protests, black people wouldn’t have been listened to, they’d have been rounded up and exiled, or shot. If jazz, the first popular “black” music had been full of figures like Cardi B and [any given gangster rapper] I can’t imagine it ever would have been a success in the era in which it emerged.
Don't put this on Lincoln, he wanted to ship every single one back to Africa. Liberia is the result of his success in this endeavor, but a Democrat actor shot him in the head before he could finish.
The irony being that if John Wilkes Booth saw the black community in America today, he’d be:
Horrified at the idea he inadvertently stopped Lincoln from shipping them off.
More certain than ever that his beliefs were correct.
Personally, I’m not with the “should have shipped them away” group; I think that if you look at, say, MLK’s marches, you’ll find plenty of nicely-dressed, well-mannered, well-spoken black people. If you look at marriage and family statistics from that time, black households were every bit as stable as white ones. So I think it’s clear that African-Americans have just as much potential to be good (or bad) as any other race.
But if you look at the modern parallel to those things, it becomes clear that something went horribly wrong. With all communities, certainly, because the rate of broken homes and gangbanger kids went up across the board—but it went up much more so in the black community. If the civil rights marches had all been like BLM’s protests, black people wouldn’t have been listened to, they’d have been rounded up and exiled, or shot. If jazz, the first popular “black” music had been full of figures like Cardi B and [any given gangster rapper] I can’t imagine it ever would have been a success in the era in which it emerged.