Because they might have killed the body of Abraham Lincoln but they didn’t kill the spirit! 🙏

wrong lol

Except the bullet that JWB fired basically was the nail in the coffin for the reconstruction era that Lincoln was proposing so in this case the bullet was stronger than the ballot.

Only if those elections are held as transparently as possible and as fair as possible. America is at the opposite end of that spectrum.

I mean, literally there was also this giant fucking war that was necessary to keep the US together and led to freeing of the slaves. Also, just look at nearly every single anti-colonial struggle on the planet. It was bullets, not ballots, that won nearly every single one of those

Check the exit polls from the primaries...the more appropriate quote is..”it’s not who vote but who counts the votes” Until we reform our electoral system & get rid of the vulnerabilities in our voting systems, demand uniformity and verifiable transparency, it’s all theater.

Voting didn’t end slavery.

#BLM, however, the reason this and other current movements don't change anything the way SNCC, Sit-Ins. etc. did, is because they were organized and had specific goals and purposes. Until we do this, there will be no substantive or lasting results.

the assassination of lincoln put andrew johnson in office, who hamstrung the reconstruction by allowing the same slavers we fought against to oversee it we're still seeing the consequences of that event, so maybe you're underestimating the impact here

Too bad the northern army forgot to load their muskets with ballots. Coulda really saved us some time