A Letter To Dear Mr President Abraham Lincoln

When you proclaimed all slaves in the U.S.A. to be freed, it meant the total abolishment of the slavery system, I suppose. When you issued the Emancipation Proclamation, I think what you had in mind was equality of all people, whether former slave-owners or slaves or, people of northern or southern region of U.S.A. Although Mr. President, your thought was noble and just to all conscience minds, men’s prejudice against others were there at all times. Your most humanistic proclamation was lost on those inconsiderate ones, whose distasteful behavior on people of darker skin color or somewhat different look; was an expression of the mind-set of superiority against people of, they think, lower classes or inferior. It was many long trying years for the people you freed, wishing their well being. Even one century after that monumental day. There was only a little change to the people of color. Though granted some physical freedom and little human dignity, they were still oppressed with social injustice and forced to live in an unfair world of de facto segregation. There were so many obstacles to overcome in order for them to raise their social status, and that’s why their mental anguish was always there to torment them. However, after the day of the Washington D.C. Rally, lead by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he sowed the seed of a dream that hot summer day under the scorching sun. Things gradually changed, and the germinated seed grew with the dream. Then, another half century elapsed, still, with some struggles, from the day of Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech. We Americans voted an African-American man for our president. A seed Dr. King sowed is ripened, his dream realized. Mr. President, one and a half century after the Emancipation Proclamation, this nation became a true democratic country in fact as well as in name. Further it proved that the statement that “All men are created equal,” which our nation’s founding fathers proclaimed on the day of establishment of this great nation to be true, because it was actualized, we witnessed, through the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America, Mr. Barack Obama. Indeed, it took us a long time to get here. Finally all of us are here at last. It was possible because you, President Lincoln, always stood on “God’s side rather than asking if God is on your side.” We salute you with great respect, we thank you wholeheartedly, Mr. Present