Comparing David Walker to Abraham Lincoln is like comparing Rexford Tugwell to FDR.
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Which also is clearly not true
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Is literally everything whataboutism now?
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Yes. Yes, it is.
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I don’t see where I made any claim weighting or ranking absolute historical importance. The “controversy” is about erasure of some from one NYT column (& in my point the erasure of others from historical narrative)
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Surely you can see why attempting to remove Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, the entire US Congress & Cabinet, all the states, the Union Army, Garrison, Beecher, & Stowe from the story of emancipation is an especially heavy lift.
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Ironically, jbouie shares the same goal as many Southern white supremacists and Confederacy apologists: to deny that the Civil War was primarily about slavery.
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