Ah, right...got you now, Don...

What you mean is that no-one is permitted, in this thread, to mention 'the other side of Lincoln'

Silly me.
Didn't realize...
You carry on then and convince everyone he was a truly wonderful man and the fact he presided, in his presidency, over the biggest mass hanging in America, to this day, should remain unspoken of, un-written of, un-thought of.

Of course, it's what many of those in control of America have been hiding for way too long..and the amount of peopleelsewhere, FROM America, who have told me they had NO IDEA of much of the horrors wrought against The Native Americans, nor of the Covert Genocide which goes on TO THIS DAY has fair taken my breath away....

And whilst the TRUE history IS now getting out, much of it due to the Internet and the fact that many Native Americans are 'out there' telling their side of the story, this Holocaust against the Native Americans still remains belittled and forgotten about in the minds of most people.

And if any of you bother to WATCH the film I linked to, above 'Dakota 38' you will see and hear the Native Americans who made this long trek, against fearsome weather, talking about reconcilliation, apologizing for their ancestors part in it, whilst also understanding how they were driven to implode as they did.

You will also find them singing and dancing up on Mount Rushmore, as The White Men call it, The Six Grandfathers, as they prefer it to be known, again calling for reconcilliation.....

Strangely, I don't hear too many White Folks calling for the same thing, organizing *their* concerts to try to bring Peace and Friendship, Understand and Love, to a place where there has been much Hatred and Torture...

We have much to learn from The Native Americans...and it's a great shame that Lincoln did not use this terrible massacre to try to bring reconciliation himself, telling his people of the brutality of some of their own who chose to let the Native Americans starve to death, then cracked their 'let them eat grass' jokes about it....

Geez, Marie Antoinette brought on the French Revolution with her similar remark...

You stand by and watch people starve, whilst feeding yourselves? then do NOT be surprised if those people, whomsoever they may be, rise up and slay those whom they regard...and quite rightly so...as being Beyond Evil....

Brule - Reconciliation of Cultures Concert - The Six Grandfathers/Mount Rushmore