Ah, the leopard reveals its spots.
Yes, I do deny that the white and black races are engaged in perpetual race conflict. I think that argument is risible.
It's funny? I don't think so.
I do not believe that any such conflict is built in. I do believe that the concern that it is by Lincoln, Jefferson and many, if not most, thoughtful Americans of the 19th century was not without basis.
We were in the process of ethnically cleansing the continent of its original natives. Why should thoughtful men not worry that similar actions would be carried out against blacks if slavery, which regularized the relations between the races in a way comfortable for whites, was removed?
I don't believe this. I just don't think concern about it at that time automatically made a man either racist or illogical.