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Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes
So why are they still here? Send them all back to Africa.
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It is what Lincoln wanted. What he planned. America was never, ever meant to bear the burden of millions of Negroes shuffling freely about her streets with aimless malice.
Mr. Booth, though his heart was in the right place, actually authored the doom of both North and South when he pulled that trigger. I fear it is no longer feasible to do the necessary thing. "Blackness" has burrowed its way too deeply into the grain of American identity. We are like African children who believe that the worms wriggling in our bellies are actually vital organs, the absence of which would lead to starvation and death. Those of us who can
see know the opposite is true, but how do we convince the rest? How, when the powers that be brand anyone who furrows his brow at a black with a scarlet R?
Perhaps a compromise, then. What if we only sent them halfway back?