Throughout his tenure as President of the United States of America, Lincoln faced myriad difficult issues, including slavery and the Civil War. During these trials, it was his convictions and his eloquence of reaching and impacting others with his words that carried America through some of its darkest times. (U.S. &World)
To be honest, and read history correctly, and admit that fault is not always some else’s doing, as Americans we must recognize that in establishing this new nation, we first had to defeat or was it defang, its original inhabitants, permitting them to exist in our modern world order, or to die to try to avoid the transformation. To be honest and read history correctly we must also understand that along with the natural wonders of North America, from its forests to its animal life, mountains and rivers, we created a system of dehumanizing other cultures and creating a marketplace requiring slaves, and a form of injustice identified as slavery. To be honest, we as a nation followed the traditions of a Christian sense of order eliminating equal rights for women, ignoring most rights for those whose religious belief did not focus on Jesus Christ, and of course, crucified anyone who dared deny the White mans’ version of the natural order…identifying strong women as witches and demonizing anyone in love with the same sex as part of the Devil’s penchant to destroy the future of the family. To be honest, and understand our history correctly we must give kudos, and support to the many men and women who tried and died for the causes of real equality and freedom. As evil as some might have been, there were many more who sought justice and fairness.
I have discovered, after all of my study of history, even with the intention of many of my teachers, professors, Rabbi’s and family that although it was declared a victory that the Civil War ended and that the North became victors and we still called ourselves the United States of America and not the Confederate States; the intent of the Civil NEVER ceased. For me, it seemed that the society during the years of the Civil War just grew tired of so much bloodshed, so many innocent lives lost, so tired of brother fighting brother, that ending this internal war was the best solution. Having had more power perhaps at the time, the North were the victors, and the South acquiesced to define themselves as the less triumphant. But NOW in the year 2018, I have discovered that the meaning and depth, the desires and delusions, the prejudices and biases that were at the base of declaring war, never, EVER were resolved. To be honest, and read history correctly, there were too many indications that the South, or those who perceived the South as a genuinely white Christian nation, with the ideals that purity and power belonged to White Christians, would rise again, and had never stopped its animosity to the perceived Yankees, who seemed to want a system of law of inclusivity. As I look back at the history books of this nation, it is hard to find a genuine consensus that “All men are created equal…and that the pursuit of happiness actually pertains to all who seek it.
We are living in the era of Trump, who by himself would be a troll sitting under a bridge…but who, like the image of the Great Oz, has been promoted to be all powerful, his power coming from the influence of a foreign government, whose own leadership has read the history of the this nation and also understood that the festering blisters of hate and discrimination never healed, even after victory was declared by the North! We are also living in the time of Mitch McConnell, a self-serving depraved man who seeks power for himself and the men and women who keep him living in a lifestyle void of democracy. We are also living in a time when supposedly a Christian God has betrayed his own origins of love and has embraced the hate. We should worry, not because we have been invaded by a foreign power, and not because, in reality a third world war ha began or a second civil war is about to commence, but that there are very few who have the Constitutional power to stop all of this…or who refuse to use the Constitution as a means to bring back democracy.
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side." — Abraham Lincoln
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”
― Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." — Abraham Lincoln
