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He was right. Blacks have STILL not amalgamated in the US, and its been almost 70 years since he made that prediction. Whats wrong about his claim?Whitman writes in 1858:
Who believes that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen? Nature has set an impassable seal against it. Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so?
After the Civil War, Whitman calls the slaves “millions of ignorant foreigners…with about as much intellect and calibre (in the mass) as so many baboons…” In November Boughs, he writes of black Union soldiers: “very black in color, large, protruding lips, low forehead, etc. But I have to say that I do not see one utterly revolting face.”
The white troops he finds “superb looking.”
So yea why would black students want to see a statue of this racist POS in the middle of campus?