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In his new book, Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream,
black American author, Lerone Bennett, presents historic evidence
supporting the theory that Abraham Lincoln was, in fact, a devoted
racist harboring a life-long desire to see all black Americans
deported to Africa.
Bennett suggests that as a young politician in Illinois, Lincoln
regularly used racial slurs in speeches, told racial jokes to his
black servants, and vocally opposed any new laws that would have
bettered the lives of black Americans.
Key to Bennett's thesis is the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which,
Bennett argues, Lincoln was forced into issuing by the powerful
abolitionist wing of his own party. Bennett asserts that Lincoln
carefully worded the document to apply only to the rebel Southern
states, which were not under Union control at the time, thus resulting
in an Emancipation Proclamation that did not in itself free a single
slave.
At one point, Bennett quotes William Henry Seward, Lincoln's secretary
of state, who referred to the proclamation as a hollow, meaningless
document showing no more than, "our sympathy with the slaves by
emancipating the slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in
bondage where we can set them free."
Henry Clay Whitney, a close friend of Lincoln, is quoted by Bennett as
saying the proclamation was "not the end designed by him (Lincoln),
but only the means to the end, the end being the deportation of the
slaves and the payment for them to their masters - at least to those
who were loyal."
Bennett asserts that Lincoln often put forth plans for deporting the
slaves to Africa both before and during his presidency.
The tone of Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream is
decidedly angry, as if Bennett feels betrayed by what he calls the
"myth" of Abraham Lincoln.
"No other American story is so enduring. No other American story
is so comforting. No other American story is so false." -- Lerone
Bennett, Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream.
On Apr 11, 2:36 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> 2) Lincoln eliminated involuntary servitude. Obama eliminated private
> sector jobs.Uhm, the Tyrant Lincoln NATIONALIZED involuntary servitude.
> see Jeffrey Rogers Hummel's book ...Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War.
> Regard$,
> --MJ
> Your requisition is illegal, unconstitutional, revolutionary, inhuman, diabolical and cannot be complied with.
> -- Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson in response to Lincoln's request for troops to invade neighboring states and war against fellow Americans
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