Does anyone else find it odd that Obama is using Lincoln's Bible?

inTempus · Jan 19, 2009

I can't imagine why a Black man would so closely associate himself with President Lincoln... Lincoln was no friend to Black people, he used them for political gain but he didn't see them as his equal.

Heck, his master plan was to send all the freed slaves to a colony outside of the continental United States.

From his 1861 State of the Union speech:

"I recommend that Congress provide for accepting such persons from such States, according to some mode of valuation, in lieu, pro tanto, of direct taxes, or upon some other plan to be agreed on with such States respectively; that such persons, on such acceptance by the General Government, be at once deemed free, and that in any event steps be taken for colonizing both classes ["contraband" and slaves newly freed by States of the Union] at some place or places in a climate congenial to them. It might be well to consider, too, whether the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far as individuals may desire, be included in such colonization."

Lincoln also spoke openly and often about his belief that Whites were superior to "Negro's". Here's a famous quote from Lincoln from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate:

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything."

If you ask me, Lincoln was a scumbag. But then who's asking me, right?

So I find it odd that President Obama would be sworn in with Lincoln's Bible... if Lincoln had his way, Obama would never hold political office. Heck, he wouldn't even be in the country.