re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still recall the Lincoln quote

“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.”

True history is complex and rarely offers absolute heroes or absolute villains.

The Founding Fathers risked everything to establish a new, independent America - mostly for the advantage of wealthy white landowners like themselves, because they didn’t trust anyone but their own sort of people to run the government responsibly.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves - but only after 3 years, and only in the states in rebellion, and only after he’d given up on them coming back into the union of their own accord.

FDR saved the country with the New Deal - which he was able to pass because it intentionally, but not overtly, excluded black people.