Throat lump and fist bump

I like this. You hit it just right.
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This is just awesomely perfect beyond words. It made me weep. Congratulations, Dan. The linking of the two American martyrs with one idea across a hundred years and the quotation of the "New Yorker" controversy...Beautiful, Dan. Congrats.

That is a nice sentiment, but Lincoln hated black people. He was a product of his times. Just because you don't think a race of people should be enslaved means you think they are equals. See "Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream" by Leonard Bennett.

Yeah, and many people believe the civil war was fought primarily to free the slaves...

@Matt, can you please offer up a viable solution to your criticism rather than a stupid-ass book report?

Irregardless of how Lincoln felt, his actions proved louder than any words he may have spoken on the matter. The fact of the matter is, regardless of WHY he emancipated the slaves in the confederate states that did not rejoin the union by January 1863, Lincoln was the one who did it, and nobody else. And if he hadn't have done it, countless degrees of separation later, chances are slim that Barack Obama would be the Democratic nominee, nor would I be here writiing about it, since I wouldn't have been allowed to read, much less write..

But all that aside, whom would you rather have seen depicted giving Dr. King an appreciative fist-bump?

Yes! But did you know that neither Lincoln or King were POWs?

Matt, read Frederick Douglass on Lincoln's response to him. He would not have failed to recognize a man who hated blacks.