Did you ever read the emancipation proclamation? Try it. It didn’t do what you think it did.
Also read his speech on the campaign trail in 1858:
“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way 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.”
In his own words, yes, Lincoln was a white supremacist. Don’t whitewash history
Lincoln was an abolitionist, he wanted to abolish slavery. Period. That particular argument you’re using is unironically one only repeated by white supremacists themselves as part of he Lost Cause narratives to diminish the importance of slavery as the cause of the civil war. That he didn’t think he could wave a magic wand and make it happen is not a criticism repeated by the intellengent.
Leaving out the part of his history where his experiences during the war, specifically his interactions with freed black people, tempered his fairly typical racial views is also revisionism.
Lincoln was provably better than most white Americans on the topic at the end of his life. He even showed all signs of continued improvement in that matter at the time of his assassination.
If you mean well, which I doubt, I’d suggest spending less time trying to tear down people who were well ahead of their social curves because they weren’t perfect for their entire life, all for the purpose of what, derailing the actual point that public executions simply aren’t acceptable in a modern nation?
Now, if you want to talk about how he war crimed Indians like any other president, that’s something worth criticism even by the standards of the time.
It’d be even weirder for you to bring up on this circumstance but at least it’d be right.
Did you ever read the emancipation proclamation? Try it. It didn’t do what you think it did.
Also read his speech on the campaign trail in 1858:
In his own words, yes, Lincoln was a white supremacist. Don’t whitewash history
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23378278
Lincoln was an abolitionist, he wanted to abolish slavery. Period. That particular argument you’re using is unironically one only repeated by white supremacists themselves as part of he Lost Cause narratives to diminish the importance of slavery as the cause of the civil war. That he didn’t think he could wave a magic wand and make it happen is not a criticism repeated by the intellengent.
Leaving out the part of his history where his experiences during the war, specifically his interactions with freed black people, tempered his fairly typical racial views is also revisionism.
Lincoln was provably better than most white Americans on the topic at the end of his life. He even showed all signs of continued improvement in that matter at the time of his assassination.
If you mean well, which I doubt, I’d suggest spending less time trying to tear down people who were well ahead of their social curves because they weren’t perfect for their entire life, all for the purpose of what, derailing the actual point that public executions simply aren’t acceptable in a modern nation?
Now, if you want to talk about how he war crimed Indians like any other president, that’s something worth criticism even by the standards of the time.
It’d be even weirder for you to bring up on this circumstance but at least it’d be right.