It did free some slaves. Yes, it ignored the slave states that were not rebelling, but it freed slaves in rebelling states, and could be enforced immediately in areas where the union army was in control.

According to Wikipedia, that was 20,000-50,000 slaves. Plus more as the union army advanced.

Leonard Pitts is the best writer in the country, in my opinion.

And it does NOT really exist either. "Free Markets"

Markets only exist because of governments. Take off all government involvement in property and trade (I mean all, not just regulation of products that are sold but take off court protections of patents, contracts and police protection of property) and see if you have any markets remaining.

The arbitrary ideas of race and free trade have killed more people and ruin more lives than any disease.

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If you must generalize at all about people, put them in categories, that's not the way to do it. There are much better ways, most especially native culture (where they grew up), language and family culture, and genetics ( cladistics, who their ancestors were). We are mixing genetically so much now (Boy, that's got to drive the racists nuts, eh?) that our genetic material is becoming well-dispersed through the population again, which is a very good thing long-term, it gives more robust chances to survive in the evolutionary sense.

Welcome to DU.

Let's pretend that "all dark-skinned people are lazy, stupid and incompetent".

OK, a few years ago I was working in an area where by pure coincidence all the network technicians were black. The network ran flawlessly, what few problems we had (blown switches) were fixed instantly and they kept on top of new technology only acquiring what would work best for us. In staff meetings I often had no idea what they were talking about and I know my way around networks.

If that's "lazy, stupid and incompetent" then what does that make me???

Also, there are outliers to any group. Making judgements about the whole gives me nothing to handle the exceptions. If I'm using our meme at hiring time, I'm going to miss out on these guys and who knows what I'll end up with.