Chicago pastor, Rev. Corey B. Brooks: ‘I live on a roof to raise cash for black youths - but BLM won’t help’ [He is a Republican.]
https://nypost.com/2022/05/28/chicago-pastor-lives-on-roof-raises-cash-for-black-youthbut-blm-wont-help/
Posted on 06/05/2023 8:59:33 PM PDT by grundle
COLLEGE STUDENT REACTS | Facts About Slavery Never Mentioned In School | Thomas Sowell
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Really good to see this young man appalled that he hadn’t been taught the truth about slavery. He was eager to learn from Sowell, and boy, did he!
Here is a fact about slavery they never mention. The Northern controlled Congress voted by a 3/4ths majority to keep slavery by passing an amendment that would guarantee slavery in the United States indefinitely.
Lincoln urged all the states to ratify this amendment in his first inaugural address.
So when the House and the Senate was completely controlled by the Northern states, they voted to keep slavery forever.
So if they tell you the Civil War was about slavery, they are lying to cover up that the war was about keeping the fat rich industrialists in New York rich and also to keep the corrupt bastards in Washington DC in the money.
The war was about greed. It was not about morality. Took me a long time to figure this out, and I wasn't even looking for it when I realized that was what happened.
Good catch; thanks.
So the Confederate states lied in their very own legislation declaring secession to throw us off where they said it was indeed about slavery / white supremacy? Their opposition to States rights by demanding federal invention to stop Northern states from not sending back slaves escaped into their territory? They were lying about all of that in their own official legislation, speeches, etc. to throw us off in the future to think this was about slavery?
It's time to get real. It was about slavery. Just a few minutes of basic research confirms this. The Confederate state legislatures said so. Their own leaders at the time said so in their speeches. I believe them - why don't you?
That's exactly what Rhett Butler said repeatedly in Gone With The Wind. Also Ashley Wilkes writes home to Melanie to say the same thing, after he's been in battle for a year or so (before he's captured and imprisoned at Rock Island). I'm talking about the novel. I'm not an expert on the movie, but I've been reading the novel to my wife a little at a time (to help her fall asleep) over the last two or three months.
It was also good to hear him say he wants to verify this new information.
After he verifies it he will really know what is true and what isn’t. That will make him much more resistant to accepting without question things he is told in the future.
It’s good for everyone to verify the information that comes their way.
“All wars are sacred. To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators.”
I was unaware of this proposed amendment (the "Corwin Amendment"), nor of Lincoln's support of it. Thank you for including your comment about it.
The student said, “I’ve never even heard of the Balkans before”—even though he went through K-12 nd is now in college.
What lousy school did this idiot go to? Heck it was even taught in high school
He must’ve missed that semester
Nope. Not going to entertain that dodge for even a second.
The NORTHERN CONGRESS voted to keep slavery. These are the states that provided the armies for the war. They didn't send those armies to stop slavery, they sent those armies to stop INDEPENDENCE.
What the southern states said or didn't say has nothing to do with it. The NORTH did not fight over slavery. They fought to keep *CONTROL* of the money producing southern states.
It's time to get real. It was about slavery. Just a few minutes of basic research confirms this.
Stop. A century of propaganda has done it's work, and now it is universally believed. You will find this message spread every where you look.
The actions of the Northern congress and the economic numbers tell the real truth. The south was paying 72% of all the taxes in the Nation and the robber baron class in New York and their corrupt adjuncts in Washington DC were getting rich off of slavery in the south.
They invaded the South to keep that money coming in.
True that
What an idiot
All my life I had been taught that the North went to war to stop slavery in the South. I believed it until just a few years ago. After getting into discussions on the topic and trying to understand how the pieces fit together, I finally realized the pieces don't fit together. What we have all been taught is a narrative that hides the real truth.
Money was the root of that war, the same as it is always the root of war. We were led to believe this one was different. This war was alleged to be about the rights of man and morality.
Well it wasn't. It was about evil greed, but the winners controlled what could be said and taught, and so we all believed what they wanted us to believe.
The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzD0ByU6-XI
- Carol Swain, Vanderbilt U.
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THOMAS SOWELL SHOCKS COLLEGE STUDENT ON THE CURRENT BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKzgjtZPmak
The reason it didn’t every become law was because the south had already begun fighting
It was an effort to prevent that. It didn’t work
You are welcome. I was shocked when I learned of it. It doesn't fit with all the things I had been taught about the Civil War. How could Lincoln have supported an amendment to keep slavery forever?
I am fond of citing this article to people who want more insight on the topic.
The 'Ghost Amendment' That Haunts Lincoln's Legacy
And while we are on the topic of surprises I learned about the civil war... Lincoln attacked first. The confederate attack on Sumter was a response to Lincoln ordering a war fleet to sail to Charleston and force the confederates to comply.
The warships Lincoln sent were Powhatan, Pocahontas, Pawnee, Harriet Lane, Yankee and a large ocean going passenger ship carrying troops called "Baltic."
Their orders were to use their force if resisted by the Confederates. It was the arrival of the Harriet Lane that convinced General Beauregard that an attack and an invasion was imminent.
But they don't ever mention this belligerent act by Lincoln when they teach history.
Well to be fair I don't think I ever heard of "the Balkans" while I was growing up, including in college.
Of course back then "the Balkans" were behind the iron curtain, mostly inaccessible to Americans, just part of the USSR. The only way I would have heard of the Balkans is if they had an Olympic skating team or such, which of course they didn't.
Chicago pastor, Rev. Corey B. Brooks: ‘I live on a roof to raise cash for black youths - but BLM won’t help’ [He is a Republican.]
https://nypost.com/2022/05/28/chicago-pastor-lives-on-roof-raises-cash-for-black-youthbut-blm-wont-help/
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