Pretty much what I was going to say. Thanks.
Lincoln proposed something and asked for volunteers. Yet Gates presents this as some sort of racist compulsion. AFAIK, Lincoln never once proposed making colonization compulsory. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of various other proponents of colonization such as Jefferson.
I’d also like Gates, or anybody else, to point to a single statement Lincoln made in this sales pitch that wasn’t 100% true at the time, and indeed that continues to be true to this day.
If Lincoln was a racist for wondering if blacks wanted to go back to Africa, then so was Marcus Garvey.