Senate Republicans published a tweet on Tuesday evening honoring Abraham Lincoln on the anniversary of his assassination, but they goofed it by making it seem as though they felt “indebted” to Lincoln’s assassination, not the former president himself.
150 years ago today, the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. America is forever indebted. pic.twitter.com/vhIE1k20e7
— Senate Republicans (@Senate_GOPs) April 15, 2015
The Senate Republicans tried to recover with a tweet about a half hour later making it clear that the U.S. is “indebted” to Lincoln.
We are forever indebted as a nation to President Lincoln’s service to his country.
— Senate Republicans (@Senate_GOPs) April 15, 2015
In the Tuesday evening tweet, the Senate Republicans used an image of the Emancipation Statue in Washington, D.C.’s Lincoln Park, which is the source of some controversy. The creation of the statue was funded by former slaves, but it was designed by white people. And some have said that the statue, which depicts Lincoln with his hand above the head of a freed slave, is paternalistic.
