Coach Bill / Dad, Entrepreneur Special Educator, American Political Scientist, Writer, Musician.

                                                                                                           October 16, 1854 Speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act, Abraham Lincoln “I particularly object to the NEW position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic. I object to it because it assumes that there CAN be MORAL RIGHT in the enslaving of one man by another.  I object to it as a dangerous dalliance for a free people—a sad evidence that, feeling prosperity we forget right—that liberty, as a principle we have ceased to revere. I object to it because the fathers of the republic eschewed, and rejected it. The argument of “Necessi...

The Champion of America, Frederick Douglass “The education of the nation is paramount, and should not be neglected. We should recognize the absolute necessity of elevating our citizens of whatever class or condition from ignorance, from degradation, from superstition, from pauperism, from crime. It is an accepted axiom, I believe everywhere, that the more intelligent the citizen is the better citizen he is.” Congressman Richard Cain , South Carolina, 1875 at the House Of Representatives The Reconstruction Era of 1870 to 1901 was a remarkable time wherein 22 Americans of black skin color , with legislative agendas on increasing education, political rights, and economic independence  became Congressmen in our nation’s capital. The mere presence of former slaves in positions of governmental authority represented a tremendous victory for America, as it pertains to its fulfillment of the constitutional ideas of equal justice, life, and liberty for all.   Republi...