The Next Target of #BlackLivesMatter

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

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