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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Was there confusion?
The larger context is that the establishment and continuation of slavery has an economic basis and so does the abolishment of slavery. Slavery wasn't really abolished on a moral or religious basis of "it is unhumane/unChristian to treat nonwhites this way" just as slavery didn't begin because slave sellers and owners had nothing better to do than hate and target nonwhites.
This context serves as the context for denying blacks the right to vote and other exclusionary tactics that exist in more de facto and covert forms today.
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Trying to clear the confusion of whether or not I was celebrating Lincoln vs showing how he felt about Black voting rights then vs the event of what happened 2 days ago.
I actually wished I had that quote to use in the OP.
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