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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 5 years ago

Why do black people (especially those with massive black pride), ever worship Abraham Lincoln as much as someone Like MLK?

Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, these are people black people hold in extremely high regard, obviously. I never hear or see them acknowledge Abraham Lincoln, the guy who started it all! Without Lincoln, guys like King wouldn't have been able to do what they did. Lincoln was the freaking mastermind behind ending slavery! If anything, Lincoln should be praised MORE than guys like King or Malcolm X. I feel like the fact that he's WHITE, most black people don't feel comfortable putting him over a fellow black person.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    First, stop lumping people together based on their skin color. Second, if you never hear or see them acknowledge Abraham Lincoln, then you're not paying attention. And, btw, he didn't "start it all." There were abolitionists who were writing and working to end slavery. Lincoln personally abhored slavery, but his aim, at the beginning of the Civil War, was to save the union. He said if he could do that without freeing a single slave, he would; if he could do it by freeing some slaves and leaving others, he would, and if he could do it by freeing all the slaves, he would do that. He also wanted to send freed slaves to Africa (Liberia, specifically), but Frederick Douglass, among others, convinced him that this was not a good idea and that most slaves at that point had never been to Africa.

    So, dear, please read some history before you go looking for racism (or whatever silly point you're trying to make) before you run your mouth.

    (The Emancipation Proclamation, btw, did not free one slave, and Lincoln partly did it to keep England from coming into the war on the Confederate side.)

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Why do you assume admiring someone = worshipping them. The rest of what you've written is gibberish.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Go back to your KKK meeting before all your buddies drink up the last of the cheap bourbon.

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