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The End of Michele Bachmann?

By Sarah Posner

…we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level. I can assure Mrs. Bachmann, that Ms. Abedin has been thru every top clearance available and would never have been given her position with any questions of her loyalty to this country. As a member of Congress, with a seat on the House Intelligence Committee, Mrs. Bachmann you know better. Shame on yo…

Note to GOP Voters: “Political Freedom” Comes With Social Responsibility

By Marcia Pally

…be sure, the party wasn’t always the party of “government is the problem.” Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, and Eisenhower oversaw extensive expansion of governmental programs to help the little guy get a leg up. Richard Nixon used federal power to desegregate schools and establish the Environmental Protection Agency. He supported the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and proposed the federalization of Medicaid, federal support for HMOs, and com…

Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…s volume The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970), for example, revealed how a number of black women engaged religion to call attention to the gender politics of the Black Arts. With The Black Woman, Bambara, a writer, filmmaker and teacher, helped ensure that the contributions of Black Arts women would not be erased or overlooked. Importantly, as Farah Jasmine Griffin has observed, the book brought into conversation two discourses commonly considered…

Tea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad

By Julie Ingersoll

…ign ad featuring Alabama congressional candidate Rick Barber and . . . Abe Lincoln (I challenge you to try to watch the whole thing). These are but some examples; there are many more. This view, one that overstates the burden of taxes and government mandates (even if you don’t like them) and minimizes the experience of African-Americans in slavery, comes to the tea party through Rushdoony by way of David Barton (and Glenn Beck). Bloggers frequentl…

RD Book: Faith and Faithfulness

By Diane Winston

…y 1980, the great migration of white Southern evangelicals to the party of Lincoln seemed a foregone conclusion. Pushed out by liberal causes and identity politics, once-diehard Southern Democrats were pulled in by the traditional values rhetoric of Ronald Reagan and his Republican friends. Unmoved by this mass defection, Democrats then ushered Catholics out. At the nub of these shifts was the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, that legaliz…

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…gning the Emancipation Proclamation earlier in the year; President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation to officially celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Before the proclamation, Thanksgiving was also a period where slaves would often try to escape due to the ending of crop season; but with the new law, it morphed into a time where newly freed Blacks could come together.” As such, Thanksgiving, like Decoration Day (Memorial Day), became post-eman…

The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Need for a Third Reconstruction

By Eric Foner

…words of Rev. William Barber, asking Americans to act in accord with what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.” The Moral Mondays movement he spearheaded in North Carolina is a model of how citizens can band together to combat efforts to undo the vast social changes of the last half-century. I am impressed by Rev. Barber’s knowledge of American history, and how he finds in history a usable past for the current movement. As one who has…

What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…of the land. Due to other major national events—the Civil War, followed by Lincoln’s assassination—the NRA’s “Christian amendment” didn’t gain traction. They nonetheless resumed their work on local levels through the next few decades. Politicians such as New Hampshire Republican senator Henry W. Blair continued the work in congress, eventually supporting the first U.S. federal law aimed at a specific ethnic group, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882…

Dispatches from the Election: John McCain, Great White Nope

By Glenn W. Smith

…ast week. The image was no longer the 160-year-old contest between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in their classic presidential debates. In 2008, the forces of emancipation were represented not by an already free emancipator, but by one of the emancipated. The scant notice given to that fact is, however, a sign that we have a long way to go. We have taken a giant step, but there are many necessary giant steps still to come. And the dogs are o…

Will Sarah Palin Ruin The Religious Right’s African-American Outreach?

By Sarah Posner

…dia figures—who represent the GOP’s only hope for reclaiming the legacy of Lincoln and, with it, long-term demographic relevance—are not amused. They’re now saying what many in the GOP increasingly believe: Sarah Palin is not fit to be a serious leader of the Republican Party. Michael Faulkner, who is challenging Charlie Rangel for his New York House seat, said of Palin’s tweet that Dr. Laura shouldn’t “retreat” but “reload:” “Lady, are you kiddin…