The Man Who Freed Us or Not? For many years, Abraham Lincoln High School has been celebrating the birthday of the man it was named after. However, this year the African-American students at the school began arguing about this celebration and questioning whether it should be cancelled on the grounds of Lincoln's letter to his friend Horace Greeley. By some students' opinion in this letter Lincoln has expressed himself as a racist, who supported slavery …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…the races in this country became equal and forever has gone the threat of falling the country apart from the loose federative state it was at that time. My opinion is that not just African-American students in our school, but all students of any skin color in our country should celebrate Abraham Lincoln birthday as a memory of a man who created the basis of one the strongest and most powerful countries in the world.