Yet, for all of Lincoln's negatives, many of which are chronicled by Lerone Bennett, Jr., in his searing book, FORCED INTO GLORY, the slaves, free blacks, and abolitionists rejoiced that despite his "white supremacist" bent, in the end, he did the right thing in issuing the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, and in enlisting 200,000 black soldiers, whose strong "sable arm," dealt the death blow to slavery!
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:00:05 -0800
Subject: Re: * In Spielberg's "Lincoln," Passive Black Characters
Worse yet he ignored the fact that Lincoln was a white supremacist! During his presidential debates with Douglas he made that clear. Her
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e's a direct quote:
"I am not, nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; I am not nor have ever been in favor of make voters or jurors of Negroes...And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
So why did he wind up "emancipating" blacks? The answer is that he needed more soldiers for his northern army to win the civil war.
Peace, Carlos
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Dorinda Moreno
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* In Spielberg's "Lincoln," Passive Black Characters
If I remember correctly, Spielberg did something similar in
Saving Private Ryan: there were no Black soldiers in the
invasion of Europe. Do we need to confront Spielberg on his
(hopefully) unconscious racism?
Cooper Thompson
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Spielberg has not learned anything about undoing racism
since "Amistad".
"Lincoln" is a film for Spielberg to work out his
relationship with his dad. He needs help to work out his
threadbare relationships with non-Caucasians.
Peter J. Nickitas
Minneapolis
