Also, while Lincoln could be both racially insensitive & pandering on the stump, Frederick Douglass & other black leaders of the day who met with him personally found him to be entirely without racial prejudice in how he treated his fellow Americans.
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Under today's 'woke' ethos, of course, we could have zero tolerance for a politician like Lincoln who always balanced meeting the voters where they were - even frankly racist voters - & working to make the world better according to his principles.
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"It's good that Abraham Lincoln was racist." Did I get that right?
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it also helped that by 1865 Douglass and others had gotten to him a bit. not the same guy by the end as 1858-61
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Lincoln lived in a racially mixed neighborhood of Springfield. His neighbor, who drove him to the train depot when he left Springfield for the last time, was black and may have been born a slave.
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And Lincoln’s racist talk was well within the norm. Perhaps his talk was less racist than the norm.
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Also while Lincoln did at one point suggest “colonization” of the freedmen, lots of people did (even some abolitionists). By 1865 he was publicly calling for citizenship and voting rights for the freedmen.
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