Flying Squid@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoA third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of USwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1321arrow-down125file-text
arrow-up1296arrow-down1external-linkA third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of USwww.theguardian.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square86fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWalnutLum@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoYea one of the big ironies of history was that Abraham Lincoln was that he wanted to ship all of the newly freed slaves out of the US and back to Africa or South America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linconia
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoFor peace, he knew how monstrously cruel and evil the south was and that they would never tolerate black people as anything but chattel. Removing them made sense. I wish he wasn’t so kind and gentle, giving every slave owner to their slaves and walking away would have solved most of Americas problems to this day
Yea one of the big ironies of history was that Abraham Lincoln was that he wanted to ship all of the newly freed slaves out of the US and back to Africa or South America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linconia
For peace, he knew how monstrously cruel and evil the south was and that they would never tolerate black people as anything but chattel.
Removing them made sense.
I wish he wasn’t so kind and gentle, giving every slave owner to their slaves and walking away would have solved most of Americas problems to this day