Misdirection? Debatable. But B.S.? Absolute nonsense. You and your buddies condemn Lincoln for beliefs that were head and shoulders above those of your Southron heroes. Hypocrisy is very much a lost cause trait.
Besides, Northerners hated Southern whites -- what do you call that? It was race-specific, so was it racism?
And y'all hated Northern whites. Again, if the North was racist then the South was more so.
But no doubt you'll call that misdirection too.
Too bad your white-marble Rail-Splitter was one, too.
But nowhere near as racist as Bobby Lee, Jeff Davis, Tommy Jackson, and the rest of the confederate White Supremacist league.
"But nowhere near as racist as Bobby Lee, Jeff Davis, Tommy Jackson, and the rest of the confederate White Supremacist league."
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Your Hero, Lincoln
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I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization. In this view, I recommend the adoption of the following resolution and articles amendatory to the Constitution of the United States ... "Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons, with their consent, at any place or places without the United States." Applications have been made to me by many free Americans of African descent to favor their emigration, with a view to such colonization as was contemplated in recent acts of Congress ... Several of the Spanish American republics have protested against the sending of such colonies [settlers] to their respective territories ... Liberia and Haiti are, as yet, the only countries to which colonists of African descent from here could go with certainty of being received and adopted as citizens ... Their old masters will gladly give them wages at least until new laborers can be procured; and the freedmen, in turn, will gladly give their labor for the wages, till new homes can be found for them, in congenial climes, and with people of their own blood and race.
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves ...
You are obsessed with race, and I do mean obsessed. if I didn’t know better I would think you were black or married to one. Get over it, you are the biggest racist I know, seriously. It’s all you think about 24 hours a day. It’s eating you alive. It’s over, the slaves are free.
Lincoln was the white man’s President, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men…. He came into the Presidential chair upon one principle alone, namely, opposition to the extension of slavery. His arguments in furtherance of this policy had their motive and mainspring in his patriotic devotion to the interests of his own race.
“See our present condition — the country engaged in war! — our White men cutting one anothers throats ... and then consider what we know to be truth.... But for your race among us there could not be war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or the other ... It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated. * * * You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated.”
Lincoln’s Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes in Washington, D.C. on August 14, 1862 Collected Works, Vol. V, p. 371