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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Since someone mentioned Lincoln, here is an excerpt from his 2nd inaugural, one of my favorite quotes ( if i get it right, working from memory)
"....if every drop of blood drawn with the lash must be repaid by one drawn by the sword, what shall we say but, " The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether..." " The atonement was paid in the blood of the American Civil War.
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Sorry, no. What, 150 to 200 years of slavery, decades of Jim Crow? And several years of war, awful as it was, balances the scales? And the war was a quarrel between whites for the most part. If the war is construed to be primarily about slavery, and plenty argue otherwise, it was white people fighting about an institution that white people created.
It was a step in the right direction but it was only a step.
04-28-2014, 10:53 PM
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