[lentulusgracchus]

Lincoln was a racist. But according to you he was the only one in the U.S. at the time,.... (Emphasis added.)

Polemical hypercharacterization, and of course untrue. I'm unaware of any Southerner on this site who has asserted that Lincoln was a bigger racist than anyone else.

If you have a quote like that handy, specifically from mojitojoe (since you used the pronoun "you"), now would be the time to post it up or withdraw your remark.

..... in spite of the fact that his views were far more advanced than any Southerner you would care to name.

When? In 1858? Not hardly. More advanced than southern abolitionists? Don't think so. Lincoln was a colonizer, remember.

[Non-Sequitur]

Polemical hypercharacterization, and of course untrue. I'm unaware of any Southerner on this site who has asserted that Lincoln was a bigger racist than anyone else.

I can't get a one of you to admit there were any Southern racists at all, much less ones worse than Lincoln.

When? In 1858? Not hardly. More advanced than southern abolitionists? Don't think so. Lincoln was a colonizer, remember.

As was Robert Lee. But I rather than dealing with mythical Southern abolitionists how about a quote from some Southern leader who believed blacks were in any way their equal, much less that they had any rights at all?