Don't Believe the Hype

"Lincoln is theology, bot historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in him and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him."    Lerone Bennett Jr.
 Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln White Dream p. 114

Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, U.S. the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states" are, and hence forced shall be free."

What Did That Mean? The Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that head seceded from the Union leaving slavery exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Therefore the freedom that was promised depended upon Union military victory.




The Truth About Abraham Lincoln and His Intentions: Okay it is time to break things down Lincoln did not oppose Southern slavery he initially did not support the extension of slavery into the territories. In fact during his first inaugural address he pledged by making it explicitly constitutional with the " Corwin Amendment," that had already passed the U.S. House and Senate.



What Did Lincoln Want? Lincoln opposed the extension of slavery, in his own words  he did not want the territories to "become an asylum for slavery and N-word, plural." Lincoln also said that he did not want the white worker to be "elbowed from his plow or his anvil by slave N-word plural."



Lincoln signed to this document for economic and political reasons and he was indeed a racist.





Facts About Lincoln You Didn't Know: During his time as a state legislator he supported myriad laws and regulations in the state of Illinois that deprived the small number of free blacks in the state, Lincoln supported "Black Codes" that made it impossible for free blacks to earn a living, he also supported the 1848 amendment to the Illinois Constitution that prohibited the immigration of blacks into the state.


Words from Toni: It has been a 150 years since this document was written and passed and it still took sometime to be enforced and after the Civil War things only got worse. The birth of the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws made life in America a living hell for African Americans.  Let's get one thing clear the Thirteenth Amendment initially ended slavery. I am tired of people trying to compare President Obama to President Lincoln.  I am tired of people teaching a lie,In school I was taught to love and appreciate Abraham Lincoln and that would not be a surprise since I grew up in Kentucky. We were taught to view President Lincoln as a benevolent man as I got older I learned the truth about him and the whole situation. But even as a kid I always had a feeling he really did not like African Americans anyway. If you want to know more information about this topic I have a suggest a book for you to read.  The book is called Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln White Dream by Lerone Bennett Jr.