Hollywood & Lies about LIncoln

"Why is there so much lying? And some wonder why we need to embrace Black History Month."

Dear friends, 

 There are often great misconceptions about the results of the Civil War. However, one thing is for certain. No one "freed" the enslaved. Rather, African Americans - along with many European Americans - stopped the Southern enslavers' oligarchy from expanding their evil economic system while, at the same time, destroying the institution of slavery itself. The above-mentioned soldiers did all of this with courage, skill, determination, and WEAPONS! 

 Even Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is falsely represented in the government- and corporate-controlled media, and both public and private school systems. For there were actually two prior proclamations. The first was issued by General John Fremont, governor of the Missouri territory, almost two years earlier (August 31, 1861). Upon Lincoln getting word of Missouri captives being freed, the "Great Emancipator" sent a letter ordering Fremont to stop the releases. When the feisty general ignored him, Lincoln ordered Fremont back to Washington DC, and revoked that very first proclamation himself. The second one, by Governor David Hunter of South Carolina, issued in July of 1862, suffered Lincoln’s same condemnation. It was only soon afterwards, when it was clear that , especially since there were already thousands of Black Confederate soldiers who were fighting to preserve slavery, since there were also thousands of Black slave owners in the ante-bellum South, that Lincoln decided to allow the Emancipation Proclamation, the third one, mind you, to move forward. (see Lerone Bennett Jr.'s classic book, Before The Mayflower). 

 There is also plenty of literature in any local public library, as well as your Internet browser, to support that simple fact. Of course, the Hollywood garbage called "Lincoln" not only, conveniently, doesn't mention that just mentioned above, it also doesn't have any mention of Frederick Douglass who was the main person behind inspiring Lincoln to follow through with the enactment of both the 13th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution. Why is there so much lying? And some wonder why we need to embrace Black History Month. 

 G. Djata Bumpus