If Obama and his liberal minions don’t want to be hypocrites they should tear down this monument to a racist. Lincoln quotes about blacks are proof he was a racist, based upon the revisionist view of history that is in vogue among liberals and race baiters. And while they’re at it, they might as well knock down the Jefferson Monument, since he owned slaves. Then we should destroy Arlington, since it was owned by Robert E. Lee. And half the monuments at Gettysburg are Confederate. Think of all the jobs we can create destroying monuments. Krugman will be thrilled with the economic boost.
Lincoln didn’t think too highly of the black race, based on these quotes:
“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”
“In the language of Mr. Jefferson, uttered many years ago, “It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation, and deportation, peaceably, and in such slow degrees, as that the evil will wear off insensibly; and in their places be, pari passu [on an equal basis], filled up by free white laborers.””
“Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.”
“There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races … A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas …”
“I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
