The hidden message behind Lurking Libertarian's post was that the South was and is a racist area that only cares about owning and abusing black people with the implication that the pious yankee was/is the black mans saviour and benefactor, which, by the way, couldn't be further from the truth.
Idabilly posted an example of how most yankees felt/feel about blacks by posting the Great Emancipator's own racist words.
As opposed to the Southron viewpoint which is exactly the opposite - only Yankees are racist? Give me a break.
Idabilly posted an example of how most yankees felt/feel about blacks by posting the Great Emancipator's own racist words.
If Lincoln spoke those words today there is no doubt he would be pilloried as a racist, and rightly so. But he didn't say those words today, did he? So why stop at him? If you are going to judge Lincoln by modern standards of racism, are you willing to judge everyone of the period by those same standards? Will you admit for the record that Davis and Lee and every other Southerner you would care to name was every bit as vile a racist as Lincoln was?
No, my only point was that H.L. Menken's claim, that “it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves,” is flawed because the Confederates certainly didn't want black people to govern themselves.
Idabilly posted an example of how most yankees felt/feel about blacks by posting the Great Emancipator's own racist words.
Lincoln, and the North as a whole, were terribly racist in the 1860s as judged by the standards of today. But the South was far worse: many southern blacks tried to escape from the South to the North, but I know of none who went the other way.