[WhiskeyPapa]

Lincoln is not on the record saying blacks were racially inferior to blacks and you cannot put him there.

Nonsense - He IS and he DID:

'But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race. ...

He's talking about social equality, not moral or intellectual equality.

Your premise is laughably false, and I feel certain you know that.

Walt

[4CJ]

He's talking about social equality, not moral or intellectual equality. Your premise is laughably false, and I feel certain you know that.

No, Lincoln does not qualify the inequality as being social, moral, or intellectual. It's racial. What would lead on to that conclusion? Other writings in that statement, commonly known as words. They're clues to interpretation if you didn't know. What Lincoln did state is that 'you [blacks] are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race", and 'not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours.'

Your conclusion is laughably false, and I feel certain you know that.