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You're on CE, people here will post contrarian nonsense just for the hell of it. Yes, Lincoln was a racist. This has been known literally since he was alive. But he wasn't an angry racist who wanted blacks enslaved or killed, he was more of a separatist (not the "we want a white nation" type we have nowadays.) As he sad during one debate with Douglas, "Because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either, I can just leave her alone."

He didn't want to do anything that would make Southerners antsy about his intentions toward slavery (that didn't work), and even after the Civil War began, he didn't try to do anything about slavery until he needed to (the timing of the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't an accident; he knew it would prevent England or France from 'coming to the rescue' of the Confederacy). But still, he didn't do anything just because he wanted blacks to have equal rights, he did it because he felt slavery was an unnecessary evil and a negative to America's international prestige.
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