- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
The former South Carolina governor instead said it was a dispute over how ‘government was going to run.’
Nikki Haley declined to say that slavery was a cause of the Civil War on Wednesday evening, placing the blame, instead, on the role of government.
The former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor, who has seen her star rise in the first-in-the-nation primary state, was appearing at a town hall event in Berlin, New Hampshire, when a voter asked her to identify the cause of the war.
“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run,” she responded. “The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do. What do you think the cause of the Civil War was or argument?”
The questioner, who could not be easily heard off camera, was apparently unpersuaded by Haley’s response. When she asked him what he believed the cause of the war was, he replied that he wasn’t running for president.
My bad I think I confused Lincoln with another guy I did recall there being slave owners in the north. Maybe I read some bs online.
I did just find this article about Lincoln wanting to deport black people out of the country to colonize a different land and put them there.
Not sure if that one is true but that would add some layers of irony to the current Zionism movement in America.
You may be thinking of the founding fathers, many of whom owned slaves despite putting ‘all men are created equal’ down on paper. Washington even had a set of dentures made of human teeth. Guess where he got those from?
They still laid the foundations for equality. But there’s no denying they were kinda hypocrites.