What does animals have to do with racism and freedom?
Just because you free a thing. Does not mean you think it your equal. They are two different things.
You say he freed the blacks. That in no way proves he thought them his equal or that he wasn't a racist. Also just because you give people a limited freedom(it was limited) does not mean that you give up your position of superiority over them.
W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin and Julius Lester, (Black intellectuals) call the proclamation, "essentially worthless". Lerone Bennett called Abe a "white supremacist" who was just trying to cut off real reform that the true abolitionists were pushing for.
All of you that have been running down the South for years on FR and siding with the people that want to trample Southern Heritage, ban the flag. Well, this is your payback.
It is funny to hear how loud you all squeal when it's your Ox being gored when you were all to quick to gore ours.
Abe will be found a Racist, just like all of the good folks in the South have been labeled for years. So just deal with it.