NYTimes Charles Blow Opinion

[RJNorton]

For some reason this discussion reminds me of something one of my college professors said in the early 1960s. He asked the class, "What is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter?" No hands went up. His answer was, "It just depends on whose side you are on."

What is the difference between a humanitarian belief and a racist belief? Lincoln and most Republicans thought colonization was humanitarian in nature. Abolitionists and Blacks thought the same policy was racist in nature. So can the exact same policy be both humanitarian and racist? To me, this discussion seems to say "yes."