re: Born 210 years ago today: Abraham Lincoln

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Beerjeep is somebody who read a bunch of memes about Abe and formulated his thesis on him as the great racist.

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No, I’ve taken plenty of history classes and read close to 50 books on the civil war.

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When in actuality he was much in line with all whites at the time.

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Never said he wasn’t. I said he was a racist. The majority of the whites at that time were.

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Not in any way an overt racist but a man who viewed blacks in much the same way a lot of intellectuals did at the time.

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No, he was an outright racist. But that was standard then.

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Reading an actuql book without pictures would do him some good

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Reading an ACTUAL book might help you in your spelling.

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But beerjeep has his memes with quotes next to pictures of Abe so that is all he needs. What a queer.

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Once again, I’ve read countless books on the civil war. Would you like to discuss the civil war? I’d be more than happy to.