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Anybody who has read this blog for some time and anybody who knows me personally know that the one subject that will usually set me off is for someone to mention
Abe Lincoln.
Anytime I am in a setting, I hear someone speak so glowingly, and admiringly about Lincoln as if he was the second coming of Jesus H. Christ, I get a massive headache!
Hence the post below. I recycle almost anytime someone mentions his name just to relieve the headache.

Hence the following:

Abraham Lincoln “was a racist who opposed equal rights for black people, who loved minstrel shows, who used the N-word, who wanted to deport all blacks,” a veteran journalist and historian says.

Where did this come from you say…… Well the other day at work a co-worker showed me an old picture of a black family during the civil war era and they were gathered around the fireplace and a picture of Ole Abe with two candles flanking it as they gazed lovingly at it.
I thought is this a fucken joke?
Even as a little kid I never understood why American history looked so favorable at Lincoln. In school I was hardly a good student. I got D’s in history constantly (except when dealing with current event or political stuff). But even as the only black in many of my classes and hearing the history teachers speak so eloquently about ole Abe I was thinking myself that fucker Abe did not give a rats ass about Slaves or Blacks. But nobody even today seems to want to acknowledge that.
Below is some stuff you won’t see in history books nor come out of the mouth of historical scholars.

*Lincoln publicly referred to blacks by the most offensive racial slur. In one speech, Lincoln said he opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories because he didn’t want the West “to become an asylum for slavery and niggers.”

* Lincoln was, in the words of one friend, “especially fond of Negro minstrel shows,” attending blackface performances in Chicago and Washington. At an 1860 performance of Rumsey and Newcomb’s Minstrels, Lincoln “clapped his great hands, demanding an encore, louder than anyone” when the minstrels performed “Dixie.” Lincoln was also fond of what he called “darky” jokes, Mr. Bennett documents.

* Lincoln envisioned and advocated an all-white West, declaring at Alton, Ill., in 1858, that he was “in favor of our new territories being in such a condition that white men may find a home … as an outlet for free white people everywhere, the world over.”

* Lincoln supported his home state’s law, passed in 1853, forbidding blacks to move to Illinois. The Illinois state constitution, adopted in 1848, called for laws to “effectually prohibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling in this state.”

* Lincoln blamed blacks for the Civil War, telling them, “But for your race among us there could not be a war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or another.”

* Lincoln claimed that “the people of Mexico are most decidedly a race of mongrels. I understand that there is not more than one person there out of eight who is pure white.”

* Repeatedly over the course of his career, Lincoln urged that American blacks be sent to Africa or elsewhere.

In 1854, Lincoln declared his “first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia; to their own native land.” In 1860, Lincoln called for the “emancipation and deportation” of slaves.

In his State of the Union addresses as president, he twice called for the deportation of blacks. In 1865, in the last days of his life, Lincoln said of blacks, “I believe it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.”

MORE ABOUT OLE ABE!

Lincoln said: “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a 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 … am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

Sounds like a fucken white supremacist!

He also said, “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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that..”

His intentions of fighting the South did NOT lie with abolishing slavery, but to save the Union. Even though Lincoln died in April of 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery was not instituted until eight months later, nearly three years from his “slave freeing” Emancipation Proclamation.

Another Lincoln quote was, “Your race suffers greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason why we should be separated.” - quoted from John Hope Franklin’s book, “From Slavery to Freedom”

So Lincoln had little experience with black people. There was terrible problems of slave unrest and white violence in older states like South Carolina and Virginia where slaves had been bought and sold for generations. In Illinois the problem was ignorance and prejudice. Along with his neighbors, Lincoln believed that Negroes were probably inferior to white people. He didn’t believe they had the mental capacity to hold the same rights as white people like voting or serving on juries. As a result of his beliefs, he called grown adult black men ‘boys’, and told stories about “pickanninnies”, “Sambos”, “darkies”, and “niggers”.

It wasn’t until he was 19 that he traveled out of Illinois and experienced slavery markets in other states. On his trip he and his partner were attacked by seven negroes and had to fight them off. It wasn’t until he was 28 that he finally spoke out publically against slave markets. However, on another one of his trips out of the state, he saw “12 negroes’ chained together, who were enjoying themselves, joking amongst themselves and having a good time. He commented later that they were the happiest creatures on board the ship and it was a blessing that God didn’t give them the awareness of their plight. Most southerners believed that the slaves had a good life as ‘they were a child race’ as Jefferson Davis was quoted to have said.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 13th, 2005 at 11:28 am and is filed under General.
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