The US government would rather do this, harass random citizens and virtue signal, rather than actually do things to improve things for their constituents.
Yeah, Lincoln was a dictator, and that was absolutely based. No way the Confederate States of America would have abolished slavery if part of the reasons for secession besides federal overreach was the evident momentum for abolition building up. People like Atun-Shei Films are the type of American lefty who would borrow a historical figure who wouldn't like them one bit (think Sherman as well) for the sake of crying about black people.
The contemporary right cries about black people just as much as your average Boomerlib or woke Millennial does in regards to the ACW, though they don't realize Lincoln wanted them all deported. Davis wanted to keep them all here. Abraham Lincoln was an American Caesar, and perhaps that could have had influence well into the 1900's and today if moron Booth didn't assassinate him for the sake of the side the modern right (a lot of whom love Caesar types) makes apologia for.