@mekkaokereke mindblowing to realise he was still far "too woke" for the Confederates of the time e.g. Texas Declaration of Secession, and if we're honest remains so to this day

@mekkaokereke I always find white folks misunderstanding of our ambivalence (at best) about Lincoln an object lesson about 2 party elections: if Black folks could have stated a preference of the two candidates for president, they would overwhelmingly still choose Lincoln, not because he *wasnt* a white supremacist, but because the alternative was objectively worse.

@mekkaokereke yep. Lincoln’s goal was never to end slavery, even though he supported abolition. Preserve the Union, no matter what. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in territories under “rebellion”. The only slaves freed during Lincoln’s time were the ones in the District of Columbia, after the Civil War already started.