I can understand honoring Washington.
I could even understand MLK as America’s Gandhi.
I can’t understand Lincoln.
Never could. Got in trouble all thru school about Lincoln because of that belief. Fellow named Lorenzo wrote a great book about it.
I was accused of being a Southerner at heart. All thought it was funny to watch the good Brother turn red when referring to the “Civil War”, I’d call it “the Second American Revolution”, the “Southern Rebellion against Northern Tyranny”, or the “End of the American Experiment in Liberty”.
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Great fun. I was always polite and respectful. Hence didn’t draw smacks, raps, beatings, or “punish lessons”.
It was even more fun when the topic of the Irish Rebellion, the Green versus the Orange, and England out of Ireland would come up in the current events discussion. Then, the good Brothers, being mostly Irish Catholics, were all too ready to look at it from the loser’s side. The oppressed side, The injured side.
Great fun. To inquire why this was different.
At least, all the state workers weren’t on the road to Trenton this morning.
Reinke Faces Life 