*Great* Emancipator??

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Feb. 10, 1964 - After 12 days of debate
and voting on 125 amendments,
the U.S. House of Representatives
passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by
a vote of 290-130.
1966 - Economist Andrew Brimer is
appointed to the Federal Reserve
Board.

I never understood how Lincold could free enslaved people in
states where he wasn't president. I never understood why he
didn't free the enslaved people in the border states (MD,DE,VA).
I never understood why he was so in favor of sending the ex-
enslaved people back to Africa.

I did understand what Philadelphia Black orator and abolitionist
Robert Purvis said in a 1862 letter:
"Is injustice nothing?Is honor nothing?...It is said that this is
"the white man's country".Not so, sir. This is the red man's country
by natural right and the black man's by virtue of suffering and
toil. Your fathers drove the red man out and forced the black
man in.The children of the black man have enriched the soil by
their toil, sweat and blood. ....It is vain that you talk about "two
races" and their "mutual antagonism". In the matter of rights there
is but one race and that is the human race."

Democrat Barack Obama declared himself a candidate Saturday for the White House
in 2008, evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and promising to lead a
new generation as the country's first Black president.