And that black man is -on- the record as saying that HIS OPINION was that The Lincoln was prejudiced against blacks. That black man even stood up and said so at a freakin' memorial service for The Lincoln:
"It must be admitted, truth compels me to admit, even here in the presence of the monument we have erected to his memory, Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man. He was preeminently the white man's president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men."
"I have said that President Lincoln was a white man and shared the prejudices common to his countrymen towards the colored race.
"Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery."
Some samples of Frederick Douglass's opinion on The Lincoln's prejudice against blacks. Since you claim The Lincoln valued Mr. Douglass's opinion over every other American, I thought maybe his opinion would of interest to you. And these quotes all come from a memorial service for Lincoln, just imagine what he must have been saying in private.
Somewhere 'deep inside, that small captive rational part of his mind is screaming and banging on the walls of the cell it is held prisoner in.'*
* - Name withheld by request