[Dixielandjazz] Lil Armstrong (remark about passport listingdivorce of Lil)

[Charlie Hooks]

on 9/30/02 11:52 AM, John Farrell at stridepiano@tesco.net wrote:

> shoots down in flames Lincoln's reputation as the benevolent father
> of  slave emancipation and democracy.

Yes, it needs shooting down because it just ain't so!  Lincoln deserves a
lot of credit and enormous respect for having held the Union together, even
though he did it illegally (the South had every right to seceed!) and at a
bloody cost.  But as an icon standing tall over toiling slaves and saying,
"These shall be made free,"  he deserves no credit at all--nor, I assure
you, would he want any!  Lincoln was not fond of black people.  The modern
politically correct attitude was something he would have found ludicrous. As
do I.  

Charlie