“Sometimes you have to confront history, rather than hide from it.”
This is true. The history is by the time the Great Satan, racist, anti black, bigoted, crony capitalist, corporate lawyer, Whig, white man’s President Lincoln died about 3 million blacks were free people. The Southern Confederacy, that had kept them as slaves, was a crushed, defeated, smoldering ruin, forever extinct.
You got part of that right. I am not so sure about Lincoln being the Great Satan (the jury is still out,) but he was most certainly a racist, bigoted, anti-black, crony-capitalist who would sell out his mother (if he had one) to make a buck. He certainly sold out our country and the rule of law.
The hidden truth is, Lincoln was going to get HIS revenue, or else. He had a railroad to build, it was going to make him filthy rich, and those stinking Southerners were not going to redirect ships away from HIS ports to theirs and take away all of HIS revenue! With Lincoln, it was ALWAYS about Lincoln.
When you take a breather from worshiping your hero, try to remember the 800,000 (and counting) soldiers that were killed, and countless other soldiers that were mangled and disabled for life; and don't forget the countless women, children, old men, and blacks (free and slave) that were killed as your hero's swarm of blood-thirsty War Criminals looted, pillaged, raped, (yes, raped) and burned their way across the South, while intentionally trampling down crops and slaughtering livestock so that those who survived the onslaught from hell might starve or freeze to death (nice fellows, those Lincoln thugs.)
And what about the 3 million blacks? What was their plight after Northern carpetbaggers and corrupt ruling coalitions divided them and the Southerners, precipitating a century of hate?
Were the free blacks welcomed in the Northern States by the white occupants (they were not before the war,) or were they treated like 2nd, even 3rd-class citizens for a century, or more? We all know the truth. The sanctimonious post-war North was every bit as "Jim Crow" as the South, if not more so.
Like I said, sometimes you have to confront history, rather than hide from it.
By the way, are you familiar with this website?
Are you aware that you may have been worshiping the wrong fellow?
"The conversion of the Lincoln Memorial into an icon of antiracism by Marian Anderson and Martin Luther King, Jr., then, is misleading. Most of the white American opponents of slavery in his time, like Lincoln, had no intention of creating a color-blind, multiracial society in the United States. Among Lincoln's contemporaries, only a minority of white abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Thaddeus Stevens, and Charles Sumner, together with black abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, could envision an America in which citizens of all races formed a single community. They—not Abraham Lincoln—are the genuine patron saints of post-racist America, and it is an injustice to their memory to give credit for antiracist reforms to Lincoln rather than to them and their successors in movements for racial and sexual equality."
[Michael Lind, "What Lincoln Believed." Doubleday, 2005, p.19]
Amen to That! (although I would personally scratch Stevens from that list.)
Mr. Kalamata