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To: rockrr

The racist moniker sticks to everyone in the mid 19th century evenly; with very few exception. Lincoln NOT being one of the exceptions.


121 posted on 04/08/2015 6:45:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Do you have any conception of how stupid you sound? That’s EXACTLY the same argument that the left is handing out right now. You haven’t gone leftist on us have you?!

The truth is that racial attitudes in the mid-1800’s weren’t very charitable towards blacks. Most saw them as inferior; many saw them as sub-human. Lincoln was mainstream in his attitudes towards blacks and definitely not hidebound.

To call him “racist” - as in holding an opinion more extreme than the mainstream thinking of the times is simply untrue.


125 posted on 04/08/2015 8:58:07 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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