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One of the most common questions people ask me is: “Why don’t black people vote for the Republican Party?” In fact, if I had a dollar for every time I’m asked that question, I would be sipping Mai Tai’s on my own private island.
But it’s a valid and important question, especially in an era when Democrats enjoy receiving 90% of the black vote. The subject has vexed many on the right, especially considering the fact that the Republican Party was the political force that resulted in the abolition of slavery. Moreover, it was primarily the GOP that championed civil rights legislation, especially in Congress.
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Did Black lives matter to Abraham Lincoln? It s complicated
Updated 9:42 AM ET, Sun March 14, 2021
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Lincoln: Divided We Stand, a six-part original series examining the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on CNN. (CNN)Abraham Lincoln was clinically depressed. Some say he was gay. He guest-starred on a Star Trek episode and became a vampire slayer.
Which of these four depictions of Lincoln are true?
All of them, if you believe how Lincoln has been portrayed by some historians and in pop culture. The Great Emancipator has become the great shape-shifter his image has been twisted like licorice to fit all sorts of agendas. He s become a pop icon who has been depicted in South Park, on Robot Chicken and in a Geico insurance ad. Scholars offer wildly different theories about everything from Lincoln s mental health to his romantic proclivities.
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BRATTLEBORO â In March of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes became the president of the United States. According to the Vermont Phoenix, in his inauguration speech Hayes said the Southern question was foremost on his mind. After a decade of controversy, how should the federal government support the reestablishment of the Southern states within the United States of America?
The Civil War had ended almost 12 years earlier, but violent conflicts in the former Confederate states had not ended. In May 1876 a local Civil War hero, Marshall Twitchell, was gunned down in Louisiana by a would-be assassin and left for dead.
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BRATTLEBORO â In March of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes became the president of the United States. According to the Vermont Phoenix, in his inauguration speech Hayes said the Southern question was foremost on his mind. After a decade of controversy, how should the federal government support the reestablishment of the Southern states within the United States of America?
The Civil War had ended almost 12 years earlier, but violent conflicts in the former Confederate states had not ended. In May 1876 a local Civil War hero, Marshall Twitchell, was gunned down in Louisiana by a would-be assassin and left for dead.
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