Since we are still plagued by these acts of insensitivity towards people who are not ‘white,’ I cannot imagine how this Lincoln plot fed into the narrative of 1868.
One day, hopefully, the blood of the millions of Africans who fought and died on the front lines with Lincoln in return for the emancipation act will be finally heralded as the biggest bargain in American history and neither as a one-sided all powerful white man’s humanitarian act nor the hand of a white god.
It was strictly business, and it was strictly practical – nothing more nothing less!
So I vehemently refuse the film, and it can (and probably will) go ahead and win this years Oscar’s best picture and many more – for the voters belong to that Lincoln Club anyway. Who else is praising this movie but white men? And I care less if that’s what it takes to entrench white paternalism some more in America. So be it.
I may be flabbergasted, but I am not at all discombobulated!
