84. Black people were a PAWN in Lincoln's Power Play.
I thought everyone knew that. Lincoln is probably rolling over in his grave at the thought of a black president. I think it is far more likely that FDR could imagine it, than that Lincoln could. Keep in mind that Lincoln didn't even live to see the Reconstructionist Republicans who insisted on black representation in Congress.
Whatever comparisons a person wants to draw between Lincoln and Obama, and there are LOTS OF THEM, the racial issues don't fit.
They are both from the Illinois political scene. They both were trying to unite a divided nation.... historians could find other parallels.
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