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Was Lincoln a White Supremiscist?

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White Supremacist: The Theory or belief that white people innately superior to people of other race, especially blacks. President Abraham Lincoln, who served as our nations 16th president of the United States, is not who we all grew up knowing. Lincoln who grew up in Springfield, Illinois grew up a very poor man who worked in the farms. Becoming the politician that he is, there are some things that he says that he would do. Growing up we were taught that President Lincoln freed the slaves. Unfortunately, we didn't know that Lincoln opposed slavery, not because its bad, but for economical reasons. We didn't know that President Abraham Lincoln used racist language such as the "N" word. We didn't know that President Abraham Lincoln opposed Laws to help give blacks rights. Yet, we didn't pay attention the Union and the Confederate we basically two different countries at the time of the civil war, and the Union had no control over the Confederate. But Lincoln freed the slaves?

President Abraham Lincoln, in my eyes, is indeed a white supremacist who had to do what he had to do to fulfill his political duties. Lincoln was a Politician. He could not do or say any thing to effect anything for his campaigning, Some of the things that he did was to only help his own kind, and made some of the things worse for Blacks

Bennett states, Lincoln a young politician, regularly uses racial slurs in speeches, told racial jokes to his black servants, and opposed any laws that would better the lives of blacks. Lincoln did not respect his blacks servant. We were taught that he help blacks yet the blacks still were living horrible. Lincoln never believed in multi race society. He thought it would be a good thing was to keep the blacks away from whites. Even though we were taught Lincoln was the person who believed in equality, he used a lot of that to keep blacks away.

President Lincoln did a lot of things to help his people. We were taught

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