It's a start.
I will also say that think Abraham Lincoln was more rcist than I.
Judge Lincoln by the standards of today and every one from that period fails your racism test. Judge Lincoln by the standards of the period and he comes off very well in comparison, especially to men like Davis or Lee or Jackson who believed blacks were suited for slavery and nothing else.
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.
They probably just mistook you for a Yankees fan.
Not possible!
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Question: What do you get when you cross a pig and a Yankees fan?
Answer: Nobody knows. There are some things even a pig won't do.