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Let's get back to history, shall we? I just read a debate in Congress from 1864 that started out on the question of whether black people should be permitted to carry the mail, which quickly descended into lunatic anxieties about interracial sex.
Here is one volley from the debate. This was Sen. Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, a Democrat. Read to the end. (Cong. Globe, Senate, 38th Cong, 1st Sess., p. 840)
To continue: poking fun at Saulsbury, James Lane (a Republican from Kansas) said he was not worried about "amalgamation" because "the ladies of Kansas" would never choose a black man for a husband.
This is essentially the same joke that Lincoln made in his 4th debate with Douglas in 1858, eliciting "roars of laughter" from the crowd. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/linc…
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The following articles should be read together. The first explains how U.S. foreign policy displaced Maya communities in Guatemala, and the second explains how the U.S. government turned the desert environment on the Mexican border into a death trap for migrants.
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