re: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

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Well, to be fair I'm black.... So....

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Well, in deference to your ethnicity, I can understand why you might believe the myth of Honest Abe rather than reality. The truth is he was a politician who used the black people as a tool to get re-elected.

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"I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the black races which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man."

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"I thought that in your struggle for the Union, to whatever extent the negroes should cease helping the enemy, to that extent it weakened the enemy in his resistance to you. Do you think differently? I thought that whatever negroes can be got to do as soldiers, leaves just so much less for white soldiers to do, in saving the Union.

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He was a tyrant. John Wilkes Booth did the nation a favor. There's no telling what that man would have done...