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virtually everyone was 'racist' back then. Lincoln had no love for the black man, and used the slavery issue as a convenient reason to invade the South.

So, the man who personally wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, freed the slaves, set the stage for the 13th/14th and 15th amendments and paid the price with his own life is a racist? Someone is going to have to explain that one to me because I just don't see it.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.

Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.

I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.

As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.

Yours,
A. Lincoln.

So, the man who personally wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, freed the slaves, set the stage for the 13th/14th and 15th amendments and paid the price with his own life is a racist? Someone is going to have to explain that one to me because I just don't see it.

states rights

Diane Feinstein? I love it when they eat their own

Just because you work against slavery doesn't mean you can't be racis.

Lincoln was clearly a racist. He was a unionist and believed the only way to preserve the union was to at the very least contain slavery to the states where it was already. He proposed deporting the slaves. He clearly stated that he did not wish to make the colored man the equal of the white. He as did Jefferson believed the Black race a huge problem.

So, the man who personally wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, freed the slaves, set the stage for the 13th/14th and 15th amendments and paid the price with his own life is a racist? Someone is going to have to explain that one to me because I just don't see it.

The San Francisco School Board says that ol' Abe was such a bad guy that his name should be removed from schools, George Washington too.

"After years of discussion and committee meetings, the San Francisco School Board voted six-to-one in January to rename 44 schools in the district that they felt honored people with discriminatory legacies. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; the naturalist John Muir; the Spanish colonizer Vasco Nunez de Balboa; and former presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were among the people the board felt “engaged in the subjugation and enslavement of human beings … oppressed women ... led to genocide; or … diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The schools should find alternative names, the board said.".

Sounds like the school board are bigots...they hate Americans.