Posted on 06/04/2008 1:56:34 PM PDT by chessplayer
BET founder Bob Johnson, despite his consistent support of Hillary CObama’s election as President during a segment on Wednesday’s "American Morning." "I believe that if Senator Obama leads this country the way he ran the primary, it will become a historic event for African-Americans, probably greater than the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed in 1863."linton, placed an unequivocal importance on Barack
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true story. Lincoln also wrote (and I am not going to search for the actual quote), to the NY Post something along the lines of —
‘If I could preserve the Union by not freeing any slaves, I would. If I could preserve the Union by freeing slaves in some states and not others, I would. If I could preserve the Union by freeing all the slaves in all the states, I would.’
Actually, the preliminary EP was signed in Sept. 1862, the final on January 1, 1863.
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.” A. Lincoln, August 1862
And he was absolutely right to hold this view. His oath was to the Constitution, not to the destruction of slavery.
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.” A. Lincoln, August 1862
And he was absolutely right to hold this view. His oath was to the Constitution, not to the destruction of slavery.
Since we know the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, what light does that shed on Johnson’s statement that Obama’s almost primary win is as important as that historic document?
Obama wins in some states and not other’s? Obama did not really win (since it was not the EP but the 13th amendment that finally ended slavery?)
I always found it curious that people would latch on to war propaganda as important, when really it was the drafting and ratification of the 13th that has the true historical weight.
But then, Revere never made it to Concord or Lexington either.
I was born a poor black child...
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