Abraham Lincoln was racist? A lot of people seem to tell me Abraham Lincoln was racist, and I have a response that was originally an answer to a question (Source is from user CJ) to all of the people that call good ol’ Abe racist. If you look at him in the context of the 21st Century, yes he was. If he were running for office today, he would be accused of being a flip-flopper. What you need to do is look at him in the context of the 19th Century, for that is the century in which he lived his whole life. When Lincoln was growing up, slavery was a fact of life. Another “fact” was that the black race was inferior intellectually to the white race. How did this “fact” come…
