I Dunno, Maybe That Emancipation Proclamation Thing Was Just a Fad
After Arkansas State Legislator Jon Hubbard oh so eloquently defended slavery, Benton County Republican Party Chairman Mike Sevak took a very controversial stand.
Sevak said he does not expect the group’s comments to hurt Republican chances in Arkansas this year. He did note his particular dislike of Mauch’s comments regarding Lincoln.
“Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation because he felt all people were created equally,” Sevak said. “I support the Emancipation Proclamation.”
And it took the Arkansas Republican Party only 144 years to support the Emancipation Proclamation. That, my friends, is progress.
Thanks to Richard for the heads up.
Good going, Mike Sevak! It’s about time.
Good Lord. It’s way past time. Thanks for sharing.
1I’m sorry. I can’t applaud Mike. I just have to jump off the crazy-go-round and ponder why this is even a discussion in this country—AT ALL . . .
2Don’t get too excited just yet. With a Romney Appointee to the Supreme Court they will find the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional – property rights you know.
3Next thing ya know they will admit that the Confederacy lost the Civil War and the South will NOT rise again.
4The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states that were in active rebellion in 1863. So slaves in states like Kentucky and Maryland were, how you say, SoL. In paradoxical fact, it counted only in places where Lincoln could not (at that moment) enforce it.
Now when this guy starts supporting Amendments with a number higher than 2, and the New Deal and Great Society legislation…. well, he will have arrived someplace within shouting distance of the 21st century.
5In 1972 my homebase in Quonset Pt., Rhode Island was closed and my squadron was moved to Pt. Mugu, Calif.
6A warrant asked me to drive his pickup across the states for him.
While driving through Arkansas a sherriff pulled me over and, gun drawn, ordered me scrape a bumper sticker off the back off the truck because it was ‘blasphemy in this state.”
It said, “Read the Bible, it will scare the hell out of you.”
Correction: 1973
7I wonder if Abe Lincoln ever thought there would be a black POTUS or if he thought that impossible.
8Mike Sevak sounds like the kind of politician who supports the Emancipation Proclamation because Lincoln was a Republican. If Lincoln had been a Democrat or a Whig, we’d be hearing that emancipation is bad for America, and on day one of every Republican taking office, they will fight to repeal…
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