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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   Hartung claims that more than 300,000 Union soldiers dying is "reparation   
   enough."  No, it isn't.  We'll start with the fact that they didn't die to free   
   the slaves; they died to drag the traitor states back into the union.  Lincoln   
   made that perfectly clear.   
      
       If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I   
       could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save   
   it   
       by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.   
      
   The war was not fought to free the slaves.  Emancipation was ancillary.   
      
   So the slaves in the end were freed, and Hartung considers that reparation   
   enough.  Never mind that the slaves were the end of a chain of slaves who had   
   no   
   human or social capital.  Never mind that the country reneged on "40 acres and   
   a   
   mule."  Never mind that the Hartungs of the 1870s, and for the next century,   
   terrorized and subjugated and oppressed the freed slaves and their descendants   
   with second class citizenship.  Never mind that Hartung's own state adopted a   
   constitution that had the preservation of white supremacy as an explicit goal.   
      
   Lyndon Johnson said, in direct opposition to Hartung's beliefs:   
      
       You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and   
       liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say,   
   'You   
       are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you   
       have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of   
       opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those   
   gates.   
      
   Johnson was right and Hartung is wrong.   
      
   Blacks are still not equal in Hartung's America.  They still face racism, both   
   overt (Hartung's and Gak's) and systemic, on a daily basis.  Hartung wants to   
   keep it that way.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)