This is why hero-worship is dangerous.

…ot my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment — Abraham Lincoln. 1st Debate with Stephen Douglas
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Cee R.
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Jul 5, 2023
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This is why hero-worship is dangerous. People are messy AF. Lincoln was racist, he was just marginally less racist (and thank God for that,) than a bunch of other people were.
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Written by Cee R.4.8K Followers
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Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr
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