Falsifying History on Behalf Of Agendas. “US Civil War was about Money not Slavery”
In an article on April 13, I
used the so-called Civil War and the myths with which court historians
have encumbered that war to show how history is falsified in order to
serve agendas. I pointed out that it was a war of secession, not a civil
war as the South was not fighting the North for control of the
government in Washington. As for the matter of slavery, all of Lincoln’s
statements prove that he was neither for the blacks nor against
slavery.
used the so-called Civil War and the myths with which court historians
have encumbered that war to show how history is falsified in order to
serve agendas. I pointed out that it was a war of secession, not a civil
war as the South was not fighting the North for control of the
government in Washington. As for the matter of slavery, all of Lincoln’s
statements prove that he was neither for the blacks nor against
slavery.
Yet he has been turned into a civil
rights hero, and a war of northern aggression, whose purpose Lincoln
stated over and over was “to preserve the union” (the empire), has been
converted into a war to free the slaves.
rights hero, and a war of northern aggression, whose purpose Lincoln
stated over and over was “to preserve the union” (the empire), has been
converted into a war to free the slaves.
As for the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln said it was “a
practical war measure” that would help in defeating the South and would
convince Europe, which was considering recognizing the Confederacy, that
Washington was motivated by “something more than ambition.” The
proclamation only freed slaves in the Confederacy, not in the Union. As
Lincoln’s Secretary of State put it: “we emancipated slaves where we
cannot reach them and hold them in bondage where we can set them free.”
A few readers took exception to the truth and misconstrued a
statement of historical facts as a racist defense of slavery. In the
article below, the well-known African-American, Walter Williams, points
out that the war was about money, not slavery. Just as Jews who tell the
truth about Israel’s policies are called “self-hating Jews,” will
Walter Williams be called a “self-hating black?” Invective is used as a
defense against truth.
Racist explanations can be very misleading. For example, it is now a
given that the police are racists because they kill without cause black
Americans and almost always get away with it. Here is a case of a true
fact being dangerously misconstrued. In actual fact, the police kill
more whites than blacks, and they get away with these murders also. So
how is race the explanation?
