[jeffersondem]

“I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

Lincoln was both an advocate of white supremacy and an advocate of paternalism.

I'll grant you that.

And I can understand your not wanting the fact that his statements were popular vote-getters in the North to be brought up today.

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem to DoodleDawg: "Lincoln was both an advocate of white supremacy and an advocate of paternalism.
I'll grant you that."

Your word "paternalism" correctly describes the loudly self-professed attitude of slaveholders for their slaves.
It would not accurately describe Lincoln's support for restricting slavery's expansion before the Civil War or for emancipation during it.

jeffersondem: "And I can understand your not wanting the fact that his statements were popular vote-getters in the North to be brought up today."

Total nonsense.
Lincoln was ahead of his time, but still a man of his times, otherwise he'd not be elected to anything ever.