[Peace-discuss] July 4th float -- okay, seriously...

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Lerone Bennett on Mr. Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgrGwQo7MaU



On 5/24/2009 12:55 AM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> */Lincoln on Race and Slavery/* puts things into perspective -- and 
> gives Lincoln points for misinterpreting Jefferson's words (all men 
> created equal, etc) in the Declaration of Independence. Thanks for 
> sending the review, Ron.
> Here's Wikipedia on Lincoln. Indisputable that Lincoln -- tho' far 
> from perfect -- was nevertheless a remarkable man who successfully 
> dealt with unimaginable challenges during his life -- surely the worst 
> of any president in our nation's history -- and acquited himself well. 
> Born into poverty and self-educated -- only 18 months of formal 
> schooling. Personal losses and tragedy thruout his life didn't defeat 
> him... Surely there's lots of positive stuff here even for AWARE to 
> choose from???
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
>  --Jenifer
>
> --- On *Sat, 5/23/09, Ron Szoke /<r-szoke at illinois.edu>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Ron Szoke <r-szoke at illinois.edu>
>     Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] July 4th float -- okay, seriously...
>     To: "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
>     Cc: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>     Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 10:01 PM
>
>     Excerpt from review of recent Lincoln/racism book:
>
>     NY Review of Books
>     Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009
>     Lincoln's Black History
>
>     By Garry Wills
>
>     Lincoln on Race and Slavery
>     edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr., and
>     coedited by
>     Donald Yacovone
>     Princeton University Press, 343 pp., $24.95
>
>     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.
>     .   .   .
>
>     See: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22750
>     <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22750>
>
>     Something honoring Frederick Douglas would seem another
>     possibility in
>     harmony with the "legacy of Lincoln" theme.
>
>     -- Ron
>
>
>
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