[T'wit]

There are ironies inside of ironies here. Lincoln was an unflinching and outspoken segregationist. He even supported efforts to send blacks back to Africa, heedless that by then, virtually 100% of them had been born in America. If he'd been around in 1948, he'd have voted for Strom Thurmond.

[WhiskeyPapa]

There are ironies inside of ironies here. Lincoln was an unflinching and outspoken segregationist.

That's not true. Lincoln said on numerous occasions before the war that blacks were as entitled to the precepts of the Declaration of Independence as any one.

Although Lincoln supported colonization efforts early in the war (and prior to the war), he never suggested that anyone be forced out of the country, and after 1/1/63 he no longer supports colonization, but instead begins to work for full civil rights for blacks.

Walt

[nanny]

Oh, now you have 'gone and done it'. We will be treated to postings of reams of excerpts from books showing what a veritible God Lincoln was. I am surprised he could have been killed with a regular bullet -