Lincoln Memorial Could be Demolished Next

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Tear Down That Monument!

A "Progressive" Case for Demolishing the Lincoln Memorial

The totalitarian socialists among us who try to disguise their true  beliefs by calling themselves "progressives" are currently in the middle  of one of their periodic fits of hyper-PC hysteria.  Upon learning that  the mentally deranged, drugged-up little monster who murdered all those  people in a Charleston church had his picture taken with a Confederate  flag, the "progressives" commenced a new crusade to obliterate not only  the Confederate flag from American memory, but also the memory of anyone  in history whose views on race are not identical to theirs.  They have  even called for the demolition of the Jefferson Memorial; and the July 4  Daily Caller included an article about a Portland, Oregon  teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in that city who has started a  campaign to rename the school.  The Daily Caller refers to Wilson as "a model progressive Democrat," which he was, but he was also a racist and a white supremacist.

However  racist Woodrow Wilson, the old Princeton University political science  professor, might have been, his public utterances on race were nothing  compared to those of the real darling and "model" of "progressives"  everywhere (and of neocons everywhere as well) – Abraham Lincoln. 

The  following is a sampling of Lincoln's racist and white supremacist  beliefs ("CW" stands for Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, followed by the volume and page numbers):

"Free them [black slaves] and make them politically and socially our  equal?  My own feelings will not admit of this . . . .  We can not then  make them equals." (CW, 2, 256). "There is a natural disgust in the  minds of nearly all white people, to the idea of an indiscriminate  amalgamation of the white and black races." (CW, 2, 405).  "What I would  most desire would be the separation of the white and black races." (CW,  2, 521).  "I have no purpose to introduce political  and social equality between the white and black races .  .  .  .  I, as  well as Judge [Stephen] Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I  belong, having the superior position." (CW, 2, 16).

"I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way  the social and political equality of the white and black races . . . .  I  am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of  negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with  white people." (CW, 3, 145-146).  "I will to the very last stand by the  law of this state [i.e., Illinois], which forbids the marrying of white  people with Negroes." (CW, 3, 146).  "Senator Douglas remarked . . .  that . . . this government was made for the white people and not for  Negroes.  Why, in point of fact, I think so too." (CW, 2, 281).

As proven in the book, Colonization After Emancipation  by Phillip Magness and Sebastian Page (University of Missouri Press),  Lincoln plotted and schemed to deport all black people out of the  country – so-called "colonization" – until his dying day.  He even had  his secretary of state, William Seward, hard at work figuring out how  many ships it would take, and negotiating with foreign governments about  land purchases where the former American black people could be dumped.   "I have said that the separation of the races is the only perfect  preventive of amalgamation," he declared, and "such separation . . .  must be affected by colonization." (CW, 2, 409).  "Let us be brought to believe  it is morally right, and  . . . favorable to . . . our interest, to  transfer the African to his native clime [i.e., Africa], he said (CW, 2,  409).  "The place I am thinking about having for a colony is in Central  America.  It is nearer to us than Liberia." (CW, 5, 373-374).

Lincoln supported Southern slavery in his first inaugural address,  promising to support its explicit enshrinement in the Constitution via  the Corwin Amendment, which had just passed the House and Senate, thanks  to the efforts of William Seward, working on Lincoln's instruction.  He  opposed only the extension of slavery into the Territories,  but only so that they could remain the domain of "free white people."   He very strongly supported the Fugitive  Slave Act that compelled Northerners to round up runaway slaves and  return them to their owners, and enforced it during his presidency.  He  championed the Illinois Black Codes, and supported the Illinois  constitution's prohibition of black people migrating into his state.  He  never defended a runaway slave in court, but he did defend a slave owner in court.

According to the book, Lincoln,  by Harvard's David Donald, the preeminent Lincoln scholar of the last  generation (and contrary to Stephen Spielberg's silly movie), Lincoln  barely lifted a finger to help get the Thirteenth Amendment passed, even  refusing to help the genuine abolitionists when they asked him  for political assistance in procuring votes from the New Jersey  delegation to Congress.

As Lerone Bennett, Jr., the longtime editor of Ebony magazine wrote  in his book, Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, Lincoln  so habitually used the N-word that he sometimes befuddled and  embarrassed members of Congress and others with his obsessive use of the  racial slur.  He was also a devoted fan of "minstrel shows" that  portrayed black people as buffoons, wrote Bennett.

If today's "progressives" want to begin tearing down what they  believe to be monuments to America's racist past, they should start with  the Lincoln Memorial.

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