Two hundred years ago, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born — yes, on the same day. America will celebrate Lincoln’s birthday and the U.K will celebrate Charles Darwin. Both of these great human beings provided the rational and clear thinking that allowed the U.S. to elect a black President.
Charles Darwin’s theories which have evolved over the years are the basis of all serious biology today. These theories declare that all men are literally created equal because they all evolved from the same ancestors. His theories render racism nonsense and irrational.
Likewise, Abraham Lincoln who once was a racist became enlightened and signed the Emancipation Proclamation and declare that all men are created equal.
These mens typify scientific intellect and human compassion.
I like your blog but I have news for you on Lincoln. You had better read his own speaches and writings because the man was an avowed racist who believed that negros were in fact inferior to white people. He never freed his own wife’s 2 slaves. she owned them at her plantation in Kentucky. The Emancipation Proclamation was a tool that Lincoln used in an attempt to foment a slave rebellion in the Southern States that had suceeded from the Union. It did not apply to slaves owned in any of the border states (Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, or Missouri). It was not a humanitarian gesture, it was a political/war tactic. Lincoln also had a repatriation plan in place to return all people of African origen to Liberia. If he hadn’t been assasinated the plan would have been implemented. It was the Tennessean, Andrew Johnson, who stopped repatriation. He knew that the South would never recover without field labor. It remained agricultural. Thus hte sharecrop system was born. Lincoln hated slavery as an institution only. He foound it incompatible with the dogma of the US constitution. Lincoln never met a negro who he liked.