Lincoln
and H. G. Wells
were racists
and bigots
and Thomas Jefferson
held slaves.
Working conditions
under slavery
were actually
better
than
under employment
up north:
better pay,
fairer treatment,
better
living quarters -
most
liberated blacks
actually
stayed behind
(I'm not
advocating
slavery -
every man
has the right
to be
treated
like
an expendable end).
Only certain
people
would
employ
the niggers;
and their
pay
was paltry;
they couldn't argue:
'twas either
work
or starvation.
You
think
it ended
with
Civil Rights?
My friend,
you
don't
even
know
the half of it.
(None of us
is a slave
to any man
any longer,
but we all
remain
slaves
to the wage.)
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything” - Abraham Lincoln.
is a slave
to any man
any longer,
but we all
remain
slaves
to the wage.)
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything” - Abraham Lincoln.
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