To: RipSawyer
Lincoln’s attitudes were considered mainstream for the times. If he was racist, then so was most of America of 1860.
52 posted on
04/28/2015 1:19:08 PM PDT by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: rockrr
Lincoln’s attitudes were considered mainstream for the times. If he was racist, then so was most of America of 1860. Yes it was. Unequivocally the US of 1860 was an extremely racist place.
To: rockrr
Of course, but it was not considered racism then, it was considered realism. It is considered racism by the standards of today and those standards are set by those who see nothing wrong with their own version of racism.
93 posted on
04/29/2015 5:55:13 AM PDT by
RipSawyer
(Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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