Thinks about it this way, Greg...

Take yourself back to 1860... You are Lincoln... But you are Lincoln also seeing the next 100 years of Jim Crow... You are Lincoln seeing Reconstruction... You are seeing Lincoln watch the current South resegregating... You are seeing the Republican Party of today using racism to rile up it's base... You are Lincoln seeing the KKK murder civil rights protesters in the streets in 1979 in Greensboro, NC and get away with it... You are Lincoln seeing immense poverty within the black community today...

This ain't about an academics or scholars... You are Lincoln seeing these things in 1860...

You make the call...

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