Jeff Stahler for November 20, 2012

He’s honored to be the first President to stomp all over the constitution. Read “Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream” by Lerone Bennett, Jr, African-American scholar, author and social historian. Lincoln was a racist among other things.

Almost anyone alive in the 1860s was a racist. It was pretty common at the time. The amazing thing about Lincoln and the abolitionists was that they stood against slavery anyway.

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th US President Source:

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

Might it be possible that, between 1858 and 1865, Lincoln’s attitudes “evolved”?

As I stood at the foot of the statue, and looked over to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, I realized that what Abe is really thinking is: “When will they ever, learn?”

Really? Proof? Oh yea that senator from Weat Virginia, what was his name, Byrd that’s right he became a republican right?

The war not fought for slavery it started because the south go tired of being taxed so the north could live like royality. And most of the north said he let them go. But the president made it about slavery so that people will get mad and fight (this is something a lot of blacks forget. Many white people died to free them.

No, everyone to the south of Niagara spells it wrong, eh?