The Next Target of #BlackLivesMatter

Professor Thomas DiLorenzo reports:

The Black Lives Matter movement has persuaded Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber to begin expunging the name and image of Woodrow Wilson (Princeton president for eight years) from campus buildings because of Wilson’s undeniably racist words and actions (He re-segregated the federal government, for example). Their next target, who should have been the movement’s first, should be the most publicly outspoken racist and white supremacist of all American presidents – Abraham Lincoln.

The college students involved in the Black Lives Matter movement should include in their education a reading of the book, Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream, by Lerone Bennett, Jr., the longtime editor of Ebony magazine. This should be followed up by The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked by Yours Truly, along with Lincoln Uncensored by Joseph Fallon, and Lincoln the Man by Edgar Lee Masters. In these works they would learn that Woodrow Wilson, as abhorrent as he was, was a racial angel compared to Lincoln. Indeed, as Lerone Bennett, Jr. would argue, it is an abomination that young black students are taught, along with all other American students, to worship and idolize such a vulgar racist and white supremacist whose “white dream” was literally an all-white America, achieved by deporting all the black people from the country. Up to his dying day, Lincoln was busy plotting the deportation of all the black people in America, including the soon-to-be-freed slaves, as proven by the brilliantly-researched book, Colonization After Emancipation by Phillip Magness and Sebastian Page. “I have said that the separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation [of the white and black races] . . . Such separation . . . must be affected by colonization” to Liberia, Central America, anywhere but the U.S. (Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln vol. II, p. 409).

“Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and . . . favorable to . . . our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime,” said Lincoln in a plea to ship all the black people back to Africa (Collected Works, vol. II, p. 409). And, “The place I am thinking about having for a colony [for the deported black people] is in Central America. It is nearer to us than Liberia” (Collected Works, vol. V, pp. 373-374). Woodrow Wilson “merely” re-segregated the federal government; if Lincoln had lived and carried out his plans there would have been no re-segregation because there would have been no black people to desegregate.

An article well worth your time. You can't say that about Calvin Coolidge.