“Emancipation” Is Not Just A “Fuqua moment.”

Fuqua’s newest movie, “Emancipation,” should make us start having these uncomfortable conversations about a guy named Lincoln that most Americans only see as “The Great Emancipator.” So let me tell you about Lincoln, a story that has never been told. President Abraham Lincoln was one of America’s most controversial figures.

Lincoln only freed Blacks, that would later be called “Liberians,” because he believed they needed their own country, away from a “Dominant White Society” where they’d have no place. So Lincoln, the great separatist who strongly opposed slavery, didn’t see Black folks as equal or that people of different races could successfully integrate. So even though most Blacks in the 1850s had been born on U.S. soil, he strongly advocated that they should be shipped to Central America, the Caribbean, or “back” to Africa, to a country called “Liberia.” Shocking, isn’t it? And Lincoln, the heroic so-called great emancipator, wasn’t so that great.

During his early political career, Lincoln supported the (ACS) American Colonization Society, a controversial dominant White group whose goal was to remove free Blacks born in America from the United States and send them back…