Aug 16, 2007

Al Sharpton At The State of Black Union

10:36 PM  TheSavvySista  1 comment



A lot of people like to hate on Al Sharpton, but you have to admit the brother is speaking truth in this video.

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Thank you to 'The Savvy Sista' for presenting news that most of us never see. I only disagree with Pastor Sharpton's statement that, 'Lincoln accommodated black liberation..'

No one accomodates if they are fighting and dying for what is right. Lincoln's death for Emancipation should stand as testimony in his own words at Gettysburg, "these dead have NOT died in vain." My ancestors all fought on the Union side believing both that not only Lincoln was leading the country to do what was right, but also to begin to bring Reconciliation to a divided nation after the Emancipation Proclamation made Slavery unlawful. Lincoln can stand right along with the Great Freedom Fighters FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HARRIET TUBMAN and others.
In 1858, it was President Lincoln who said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand...I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free."
If I had been born in 1830's and alive in 1860, I would have dressed as a man in order to fight for the right of African-Americans to find freedom on American soil, escape the huge tyranny of slavery and support the hundreds of Abolitionists who traveled widely to speak out against the horrible conditions of slavery. Let's not demean Lincoln's death-he is the one President who gave his life for the freeing of millions of black slaves just as Dr. Martin Luther King gave his only and valuable life for his dream of seeing all African Americans gain equal rights.

Both men dreamed the same dream and died for it.--

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