Fact: Lawyer Lincoln also defended runaway slaves.
Fact: Politician Lincoln repeatedly stated he was not for equality between blacks and whites.
Fact: Lincoln was a man of his times and virtually nobody advocated that. Also fact: Lincoln believed that black men were entitled to the same rights that white men were entitled to, a position which put him at odds with men like Roger Taney and all southerners of the time. Men like Lee and Davis and Jackson all believed that blacks were best in slavery. Yet you never talk about them in that context, or condemn them for not believing in the equality of blacks and whites. Why is that?
Fact: President Lincoln advocated a black colonization program.
Fact: So did Madison and Monroe and Jefferson. So did Taney and Lee and Breckenridge. All members of the Southron Hall of Fame. I'd say that puts Lincoln in pretty good company.
Put Lincoln's views on racism in them context of history with like-minded men - fine. Don't give him a free pass and put him on a pedastal.