White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville

[KevinM1]

Trump finally calls out the Nazis.

Donald Trump has finally condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists, calling them “criminals and thugs” and saying: “Racism is evil.”
Trump caused outrage when, after one person was killed and 19 injured when a car drove into protestors opposing a Far Right rally in Virginia, he condemned violence on “both sides”.
At a hastily convened press conference on Monday where he took no questions, Trump said the Far Right groups were “repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans”.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/do..._hp_ref=uk

Two days too late, and he obviously didn't want to.

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Quote from President Lincoln:

“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.”

I mean, we may as well take down his statues too if we're gonna be taking down Lee.

President Lincoln was speaking of egalitarianism with blacks in that statement, not slavery.  Indeed, the very next sentences are:

"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 every thing. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife. So it seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes."

Lincoln's position was that while blacks and white weren't equal as people, that slavery was still abhorrent.