===========Quote from Mav88:
black people claim to want 'honest' discussion, well here it is, I bet they don't want it
Yup. Tommy was ready to ship them back to Africa.Quote from ktm:
"It was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition of emancipation and deportation of slaves, nor will it even bear it to this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free, nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines between them".
Thomas Jefferson - 1816
=================Quote from TGregg:
The problem is more sinister than many of you believe. Many of the posters in agreement with the OP seem to generally feel that the left are well intentioned but misguided.
I assure you that is not the case, not for the leaders anyway. Oh sure, some of the libtards posting are dumb enough to buy into it, but not the folks giving the orders. They know full well that they can keep this ball rolling, collecting more power to rule the great unwashed. Black America is not about to "Wake Up" and think ", we've had generations of 'help' from the left and we're worse off than ever!" Nope, the cognitive dissonance is too high, the pain of realizing their own personal failure too great.
History shall look upon this period and consider it virtual slavery.
Don't believe me? Look at Detroit.
Quote from Lucrum:
It's my understanding Lincoln considered shipping them out of the country as well, Central America I think.
One of President Abraham Lincoln's policies during his administration was the voluntary colonization of African American Freedmen. Historians have debated and have remained divided over whether Lincoln's racial views (or merely his acceptance of the political reality) included that African Americans could not live in the same society as white Americans. Benjamin Butler stated that Lincoln in 1865 firmly denied that "racial harmony" would be possible in the United States.[25] One view is that Lincoln adopted colonization for Freedmen in order to make his Emancipation Proclamation politically acceptable.[25] This view has been challenged since President Lincoln's administration attempted to colonize freedmen in British Honduras after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863.[25]
Since the 1840s Lincoln had been an advocate of the American Colonization Society program of colonizing blacks in Liberia. In an October 16, 1854,[26]:a speech at Peoria, Illinois[27] (transcribed after the fact by Lincoln himself),[26]:b Lincoln points out the immense difficulties of such a task are an obstacle to finding an easy way to quickly end slavery.[26]:c [28]
My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,âto their own native land. But a momentâs reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible.[29]