@Renaldo Dubois,
Quote:What was the name of that Republican President who signed the Emanicpation Proclamation?
This is so much hooey, Ren. Lincoln did that as a political maneuver, not out of any warmth towards Blacks. Virtually everyone in the US was a racist, Lincoln included. Look at the great equality that was accorded Blacks after the Civil War. There was nothing.
All the fancy talk, all the consteetwoshunal amendments meant squat and you know it.
It took almost a full century after that to give them the legal rights due them and even then most of America had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to allow those rights.
You do your country no favors by advancing these historical fantasies. The people who were most against giving Blacks their due social and legal rights were the very people who have always been against advancing anyone any of the rights due them. And that has been conservatives. You only need look at the gay/lesbian issues.
Someone advancing such a fatuous notion ought not to be calling other people dumb.