After writing two books and dozens of articles, and giving hundreds of radio and television interviews and public presentations on the subject of Lincoln and the political economy of the American "Civil War"over the past fifteen years, I have realized that the only thing the average American knows about the subject is a few slogans that we are all subjected to in elementary school. I was taught in public elementary school in Pennsylvania that Abe was so honest that he once walked six miles to return a penny to a merchant who undercharged him (and six miles back home). He was supposedly so tendered hearted that he cried after witnessing the death of a turkey. He suffered in silence his entire life after witnessing slavery as a teenager (While everyone else in the country was screaming over the issue). And of course he was "a champion of democracy, an apostle of racial equality, and a paragon of social justice," Joseph Fallon writes in his important new, must-read book, Lincoln Uncensored.
This view of Lincoln, writes Fallon, is only true "in official histories or in Hollywood movies" but not in reality. The reason for this historical disconnect is that "this myth of Lincoln, not the Constitution . . . now confers legitimacy on the political system of the United States." Despite being mostly a bundle of lies, it is nevertheless the ideological cornerstone of statism in America and has been for nearly 150 years.
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2 comments:
They never will write the whole truth though, why did Lincoln free the slaves? Two reasons, he wanted to deprive the Confederacy of a workforce, AND he was going to send them back to Africa, South America, and Liberia. Lincoln knew the races were way to different to ever get along, and he said so and wrote about it, but liberals choose to ignore it.
They also won’t write how Lincoln was a Racist, thru and thru. He loved to make jokes and sport about the “Negro” and “Those colored folks”. He argued with Frederick Douglas all the time about how the two races were so different and would never get along.
They won’t write about how there was a bill introduced in the congress to do away with the Emancipation proclamation, but to kill it, Lincoln promised the drafters of the bill, and its supportors that he would “Cleanse the landscape of the Africans”.
Don’t believe any of this, go up to the national archives, it is all there for the reading, these are facts that the liberals leave out of history!
i posted the same thing yesterday gerald, but joe didnt post it for some reason. my grandparents (and the 2 great grands) remember reading that in their history books before history books were made to be PC.
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