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To: lentulusgracchus
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?

607 posted on 04/20/2010 12:59:59 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I can't get a one of you to admit there were any Southern racists at all, much less ones worse than Lincoln.

Okay, in the interest of peace, here goes: I think many southerners were more racist than Abraham Lincoln.

How's that?

I will also say that think Abraham Lincoln was more rcist than I.

But, for pure, hateful, vicious, vile, stomach-turning racism, in my own experience, the MOST racist people I have ever met in my entire life were from Boston, Massachusetts.

613 posted on 04/20/2010 1:31:49 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Non-Sequitur
[Me] 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.

Misdirection, and b.s. We're talking about Lincoln.

Besides, Northerners hated Southern whites -- what do you call that? It was race-specific, so was it racism?

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

[You, pettifogging] As was Robert Lee.

Misdirection again, and completely immaterial. We were discussing Lincoln.

But I rather than dealing with mythical Southern abolitionists.....

There was indeed an abolition society in Virginia.

..... 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?

Immaterial again, and more misdirection. The subject was Lincoln. And besides, conceding that people have rights does not waive the charge of racism.

Come on, Non-Sequitur, you can do better than this. You should be a symphony of indignant eloquence, a decalcomanic whirling dervish of quotebox cut-and-pastes like your idol Wlat. After all, this is one of your favorite sandboxes -- the evil South, and

RACISM!!

Too bad your white-marble Rail-Splitter was one, too.

725 posted on 04/21/2010 12:28:57 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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