As it turns out, it might not be exactly what most of us would expect.

The anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday was February 12. Since we now celebrate Presidents’ Day in memory of all our deceased presidents, Americans did not pause for a moment to remember Lincoln. This is very sad, given what Lincoln said that nullifies our contemporary outpouring of anti-White racism.

In our revitalized racism—this time against all White people—this neglect of Lincoln is unacceptable, for Lincoln gave the lie to such anti-White racism and its demand that there must be—today—acceptance by all of congenital White guilt for the evil of slavery.

But before I continue quoting Lincoln to refute that new racist narrative, let us note that the slavery that came to be practiced in southern American states originated with the Arabs and was brought to Europeans by the Umayyad Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 CE. We should also note in this connection that the Quran neither condemns slavery nor calls for its immediate abolition.

The merged narratives of critical race theory and intersectionality teach that all White people are incorrigibly, not to mince words, a source of evil thoughts and disgraceful discrimination. Thus, Whiteness as a mindset and way of living must be denounced, and recalcitrant Whites must be banished from the company of good people.

In total rejection of this racism stood Abraham Lincoln. He provided us today with an unimpeachable honoring of Whiteness by making reference to the actions of Union soldiers in the Civil War.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln argued that “every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword.” Thus, the Union dead had paid with their blood for the sins of other Whites, the slave owners and their plantation overseers. These dead were mostly young White men who had selflessly volunteered to fight and, if necessary, die so that others—very different from themselves in skin color, ethnic origin, education, and culture—could live in liberty.

Some 360,000 White men from the northern states died in the Civil War. In today’s dollars, the estimated economic value of their lost lives is $324,000,000,000.

Also, implicitly, Lincoln here gave a powerful moral answer to the question of whether, today, reparations should be paid for the suffering unjustly imposed on slaves with the assertion that the Civil War itself and all its deaths and woundings were just reparations imposed on the Whites of both North and South for having made money off slavery. Lincoln said that God himself had imposed the war and its sufferings as punishment on White Americans to be fought “until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk…”

White Americans of today need not hang their heads in shame nor feel guilty for what happened centuries ago. They need only accept responsibility and corresponding guilt or shame for what they do today—by themselves at their own initiative, intentionally or by negligence—to deny dignity to any other person of any gender or skin color or race or religion.

Nor should White Americans today be denied dignity and opportunity because of what happened before the blood recompense for those wrongs was made through fighting the Civil War.

Certainly shouldn’t. And yet, this is is precisely what the vile, vicious Left asks—nay, demands—of us nonetheless. For such as they, no “reparations” can ever be enough, no repentance sufficient, to expunge the burden of White Guilt with which they wish to unjustly saddle us. The very least they deserve in return for this hateful offense is to be scorned, mocked, and generally reviled.