Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Lincoln freed the slaves a generation ago if you're a sea turtle. In human terms things are quite different. No one walking the earth today was alive when slavery was abolished in the Union. Not one person. So pretending today's Republican Party had anything to do with a particular event in the distant past is dishonest.

I was referring to civil rights. You're saying the Republicans had nothing to do with that? You're saying the Democrats didn't oppose it? That civil rights didn't split the Democratic Party, which was largely responsible for the flip-flop? And don't try to bring Kennedy's name up, he sent a disproportionate number of blacks over to Vietnam to die.

Originally Posted by jamestl2

(I thought he was referring to me, being the first to say "The Black House" here in this thread, but I live in Wisconsin, unless that's not a part of America.)

I think Wisconsin is a town in East Manitoba?