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?
Non-Sensicle: “As opposed to the Southron viewpoint which is exactly the opposite - only Yankees are racist? Give me a break.”
Cowboy: “Idabilly posted an example of how most yankees felt/feel about blacks by posting the Great Emancipator’s own racist words.”
“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.” Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.
“We know that some Southern men do free their slaves, go North, and become tip-top Abolitionists; while some Northern ones go South, and become most cruel slave-masters.”
“When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we, I acknowledge the fact.”
“What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not.”
“I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, either directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”