The Incomplete Cynic

Ok, point made…Lincoln wasn’t personally interested in freeing the slaves. You can stop posting/reblogging the quote and rest assured that we know how you feel. The question you haven’t asked is, does this make the fact that he did free them more or less significant? Less, because he wasn’t a passionate abolitionist? More, because he did something truly significant and liberating despite personal apathy - even the belief that black people were inferior? Or does it even matter? Pre-Lincoln: slaves all over the damn place. Post-Lincoln: freedmen all over the damn place. That says enough for me.

Ok, point made…Lincoln wasn’t personally interested in freeing the slaves. You can stop posting/reblogging the quote and rest assured that we know how you feel.

The question you haven’t asked is, does this make the fact that he did free them more or less significant? Less, because he wasn’t a passionate abolitionist? More, because he did something truly significant and liberating despite personal apathy - even the belief that black people were inferior?

Or does it even matter? Pre-Lincoln: slaves all over the damn place. Post-Lincoln: freedmen all over the damn place. That says enough for me.

(via antigovernmentextremist)