Americas civil war had many victims (a million plus dead or wounded on both sides), not intended. But the result made for a free nation.
You got your reasons to hate him, and that is fine with me, but I got my reasons to like him, and I hope that is fine with you.
(in other words, we should agree to disagree
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The results of his work made for a non segregated society. Unless your into white supremacy in Africa, where whites are not native. See my point, we did not belong there, in the first place, telling those people what to do and how, that is my point.
How would you feel were it the other way around? Would you not rebel? We are 200 years past lords and kings, yet ...Nevermind...
And people think Americans have an unfair sense of supremacy, oughta look at how euros still try to play lord and conquerer, even when it is far far over for them