as small as a world and as large as alone

4:17am October 31, 2013

thegreenanole:

clatterbane:

kenobi-wan-obi:

kemetic-dreams:

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the European and Afrakan races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with European people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the European and Afrakan races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the European man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

This dude shouldn’t even be on a penny.

He also fit right in with his lack of any kind of problem with genocide.
http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/issues/lincoln.html

Nobody who was not a racist jackass was going to make it in politics in that time and place. But of course that’s an uncomfortable subject in “post-racial” America.

But it’s the truth and ought to be discussed.

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