BLOG #7: During this time of raging issues over racism, fanatically based appointments, and ridiculous claims to be "helping" Americans, it is imperative that we, as Americans, understand how we got here, and how Donald Trump with Stephen Bannon's ruling him, has brought future disasters upon our nation. He has appointed a Bank thief at Treasury, a medical care opponent at Health, a completely and uneducated person at Education, and the list goes on. Here is what you need to know. This is a revival of the Civil War that was never won and never lost. President Lincoln was killed by Northerners who acted at the direction of the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. His group of fanatic Southern haters wanted Lincoln dead, because of his kind and generous expectations for after the war. The fanatics who killed Lincoln instituted a vicious and ugly Reconstruction for the ten years after the war which denied White Southerners the vote. The this was stopped in 1877, and the South was allowed to reek vengeance on every Black person living in the South. Those who escaped have experienced for 150 years WORSE racism than they experienced in the South according to Martin Luther King in 1967. So, the Civil War was NOT about slavery, for at no time did the North ever do anything of substance for the Black American diaspora, and Mr. Trump has capitalized on that hatred and with with Alt Right Nazi's won the Presidency. Read this:

Reconstruction Lincoln's Plan Even before the war ended, President Lincoln began the task of restoration. Motivated by a desire to build a strong Republican party in the South and to end the bitterness engendered by war, he issued (Dec. 8, 1863) a proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction for those areas of the Confederacy occupied by Union armies. It offered pardon, with certain exceptions, to any Confederate who would swear to support the Constitution and the Union. Once a group in any conquered state equal in number to one tenth of that state's total vote in the presidential election of 1860 took the prescribed oath and organized a government that abolished slavery, he would grant that government executive recognition. Lincoln's plan aroused the sharp opposition of the radicals in Congress, who believed it would simply restore to power the old planter aristocracy. They passed (July, 1864) the Wade-Davis Bill, which required 50% of a state's male voters to take an "ironclad" oath that they had never voluntarily supported the Confederacy. Lincoln's pocket veto kept the Wade-Davis Bill from becoming law, and he implemented his own plan. By the end of the war it had been tried, not too successfully, in Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia. Congress, however, refused to seat the Senators and Representatives elected from those states, and by the time of Lincoln's assassination the President and Congress were at a stalemate.