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War Wagon wrote:Milton Berle was hung?

Who knew?

War Wagon wrote:Neither was John Holmes, but you don't see me remarking upon it.

Smackie Chan wrote:

War Wagon wrote:Milton Berle was hung?

Who knew?

It wasn't exactly a well-kept secret.

Jsc810 wrote:

The Big Pickle wrote:Anydiddlydowho, it only goes to prove once again that Abraham Lincoln was hundreds of years ahead of his time when he said .....


"I can concieve no greater calamity then the assimilation of the negro race into our social and political life as our equal"

I am aware of some similar quotes that Lincoln made, but not that one. Do you have a link?

Jsc810 wrote:

The Big Pickle wrote:Anydiddlydowho, it only goes to prove once again that Abraham Lincoln was hundreds of years ahead of his time when he said .....


"I can concieve no greater calamity then the assimilation of the negro race into our social and political life as our equal"

I am aware of some similar quotes that Lincoln made, but not that one. Do you have a link?

There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the Negro into our social and political life as an equal... Within twenty years we can peacefully colonize the Negro in the tropics and give him our language, literature, religion, and system of government under conditions in which he can rise to the full measure of manhood. This he can never do here. We can never attain the ideal Union our fathers dreamed, with millions of an alien, inferior race among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable.

This is from a fictional speech by Lincoln which occurs in The Clansman : An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. On a some sites this has been declared to be something Lincoln said "soon after signing" the Emancipation Proclamation, but without any date or other indications of to whom it was stated, and there are no actual historical records of Lincoln ever saying this.

The Big Pickle wrote:RIGHT CLICK, SAVE AS --->

Anydiddlydowho, it only goes to prove once again that Abraham Lincoln was hundreds of years ahead of his time when he said .....


"I can concieve no greater calamity then the assimilation of the negro race into our social and political life as our equal"

Jsc810 wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:Do you have google?

I wanted to see what source Pickle would use. Would it be some legitimate source, or would it be from something like The Clansman : An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan?

Jsc810 wrote:If I was trolling, I might have made up a story about being the recent victim of a crime, and as a result of that experience, I had an epiphany and now agree with Pickle's racist spew, or something along those lines.