I actually read the article, and I find it fascinating.

Ultimately, Abraham Lincoln was NOT a racist.

However, he wanted what was best for America (as any President should), so he was debating with himself whether or not slavery was best for America (and if not, what should be done with the African Americans).

As you read in the article, he not only freed slaves but made a speech saying they should be able to vote (something that got him shot and killed).

Mr Lincoln was no racist.
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Your article, my history classes.

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A biggot and a coward? Definately....I'm not so sure that I would go so far as to say "racist" though. He was merely a man brought up in the mindset of teh time...

Bear in mind, that I'm basing this on more than just the article. I'm also keeping in mind his actions with the Makato trials, and some of his policies again Natives....
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History classes and my own $0.02

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Can a man of color be racist? Abraham Lincoln was descended from Melungeon bloodlines. You see Obama was not the first colored president. According to Rosemary E. Bachelor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and genealogical publisher. Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, was a “Melungeon,” a term traditionally applied by modern genetic studies (c.f. Gilbert 1946:438-477; Pollitzer and Brown (1969:388-400; Pollitzer 1972: 719-734) to one of a number of "tri-racial isolate" groups of mixed (1) European, (2) sub-Saharan African, and (3) Native American ancestry from the Southeastern United States, mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia: east Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and east Kentucky (Melungeon Heritage Association http://www.melungeon.org/node/113).

If you find that interesting hold on to your hat. This trip is about to get bumpy.

Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, is distant relative of Actor Tom Hanks (p.55 They Did What? The Funny, Weird, Wonderful, and Stupid Things Famous People Have Done, Andrews Publishing, 2002, by Bob Fenster).

So... Have you ever wondered how people are connected in "blue bloodlines"

And, how does that tie into Lincoln?

Goooood question here is the answer. Try and keep up.

You know George W Bush? Now I bet you do.

According to a New York Post article entitled “Cousins by Dozens: Fruitful Search Through Family Trees” written by Ginger Adams Otis on October 28, 2007, Barack Obama is George W. Bush’s 11th cousin enjoying a closer relationship than former Vice-President Dick Cheney who is George W. Bush’s 9th cousin once removed, while Barack Obama is Dick Cheney’s 8th Cousin (http://www.nypost.com/seven/10282007/news/nationalnews/cousins_by_dozens.htm) ; and CBS News Video Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldZS9PL9KE.

What what what??? Obama is related to bush!

There is more! (yes just like an infomercial)

Again According to Rosemary E. Bachelor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and genealogical publisher, Obama’s is related to “at least eight American presidents (sharing) common ancestors,  (with) 1. James Madison [Edwin and Martha (Eltonhead) Conway], 2. Woodrow Wilson [Edward and Elizabeth (Blossom) FitzRandolph], 3. Harry Truman [Mareen Duvall], 4) Gerald Ford [Joseph and Rose (Allen) Holley], 5. Lyndon Johnson [Phillip and Maria (Schmidt) Ament], 6. Jimmy Carter [Adrian and Mary (Disharoone) Gordy], 7. George Bush Sr. and  8. George Bush Jr. [Gov. Thomas and Mary (Richards) Hinckley]. ”

Obama is also a distant cousin to Katharine Hepburn, Brad Pitt, Christopher Reeve, Winston Churchill and astronaut John Glenn, but Obama genealogical pedigree does not stop here.

 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and genealogical publisher, Rosemary E. Bachelor, further documents that Obama does have European royalty- “from Edward Fitz Randolph back to William I, King of Scots, and from Martha Eltonhead back to Edward I, King of England. [See Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 600 immigrants (2008: Baltimore).] ”

So what is the big deal with William I, King of Scots being an ancestor of Obama?  

Well…

According to historian and genealogical publisher, Rosemary E. Bachelor, Obama’s so-called opponent in the Presidential Election of 2008 Republican nominee John McCain and his Vice-Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, “all claim William 1, King of Scots, as an ancestor… (Palin’s) descent in this Carolingian line is via ancestor Edmond Hawes (1612-1693) of Yarmouth, MA…and she (Palin) also descends from Henry III of England by way of ancestor Edward Raynsford, who died in 1680 in Boston…(who) is alleged to be a Plantagenet descendant of Charlemagne.”

In addition, Sarah Palin’s pedigree “shares ancestor John Lathrop with presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt and both Bush presidents…Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold, (and) the list (also) includes Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Benjamin Spock, financier John Pierpoint Morgan and the original fuller brush man, Alfred Fuller…Tumbling out of the list of politicians who descend from Lathrop are Adlai Stevenson, John Foster Dulles, Thomas Dewey and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.”

Sarah Palin, according to Rosemary E. Bachelor, is also “a 12th cousin of John McCain and descends from Simon Newcomb of Edgarton, MA and Lebanon, CT, as do both Bush presidents …President Bush, Barack Obama and Sarah Palin all descend from Samuel and Sarah (Soule) Hinckley. (whose) son Thomas Hinckley (1618-1706), held several governmental posts in the Plymouth Colony and served as its last governor from 1681 to 1692.”

In her article entitled “Lineages of Presidential Candidates McCain and Obama Compared” written on September 2, 2008 weeks before the Presidential election, Rosemary E. Bachelor documented that “McCain is a distant cousin of First Lady Laura Lane (Welch) Bush, their common ancestors being Valentine and Nancy Anne (Arnold) Allen,” and concluded that “McCain’s list of ancestors is a bit ho-hum, with nearly monolithic Scotch Irish dominance and none of the links to famous statesmen Obama counts as kin (.)"

Based upon the above genealogical evidence, the Presidential Election of 2008 clearly involved both Republican and Democratic Presidential nominees that descend from prominent royal and presidential “blue blood” sharing common progenitors directly to William I, King of Scots. Coincidentally or not, the victor, Obama, has the more affluent pedigree. What percentages of “common”American family trees have such ancestral pedigree? Nevertheless, did Americans really have a “real choice” between Obama and McCain in casting their votes for a candidate that would bring about “change we can believe” in? Or did the elites contrive another election predicated upon the Hegelian dialectic where the result would be the same regardless for whom we cast our votes?

Who runs your world? Who owns the political process? Who pulls the strings of the puppets we select to be our leaders? What is the nature of the right, left political process?

This is just the start of a very dark rabbit hole. If you start looking into it you will find your whole world is an illusion.

Author: J.R.
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Referenced in the article.

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