An Interesting Assessment of Whether Barack Obama is a Legitimate President

I am going to say first and foremost in this article that this is just an objective look at one part of history. I am not saying that certain people should not be allowed to vote, become citizens or slaves. I am basing this on several college research projects that were germane to the subject matter and independent reading on my own. This is just basically an alternate take on some rather interesting things that occurred with the least qualified and most left leaning president we have had in a the modern age.

We should start with a bit of history of the context of some of these laws. After the loss of the South in the War Between the States, the South was oppressed for many years by very radical Northern Republicans like Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. After the war they wanted to basically completely destroy the south and have it ran by Yankee carpetbaggers and newly freed blacks while taking all power away from the former confederate citizens. Abraham Lincoln wanted a just peace and fast rebuilding of the Union. Andrew Johnson was very harsh to the former Confederate State's but also ended up wanting a fair readmission. Johnson was from Tennessee and the only southern Senator to keep his seat in the Senate during the war. He was very hostile to the South initially, but came to be resented by the radicals. This all played out during the Reconstruction of the South and disenfranchisement of southern whites.

As a side note it is very important to understand that most blacks were in the South, so the radicals were not great liberators as people often think. They used the Negro to punish the southern whites over the war. Many northern States had laws that were as racist as the southern laws with the exception of slavery. In Illinois if you were black and spent more than one day in the state you paid a find or spent 30 days a "forced laborer". I would call that slavery. Before people point to the evils of the south and slavery they should be aware that many of the slave ships and auctions were owned by northerners and many of the Radical Republicans were more racist than some of the slave owners. There are several things out there you can read about just how racist Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln were. Many don't know that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in Confederate States. Slaves in states remaining with the Union like Maryland, Delaware, and Kentucky slaves were still owned, bought and sold. The Yankee army even used Negro slave labor. Now it should be evident that many Yankees were as racist or more racist than the slave owners. Lincoln himself would have allowed slavery to continue to save the Union. Therefore if you think the war was fought over slavery as a stand alone issue you seriously need a history lesson.

The main way the Yankees would retain control is by treating the former Confederate States as conquered provinces and not allowing votes by the people, but putting military governors in place. They also gave the vote to the Negro knowing that they would mindlessly vote "Republican like they were told" and the Yankees also had the vote of the southern scallywags ( southern traitors) and carpetbaggers ( people from up north who went to the south for the chance to make money at the exploitation of the south). Eventually southern whites would regain the right to vote and control over their own States. The Negro was left with the mess the federal government used them to create the hostility that can still be felt in many parts of the south without any protection.

The three amendments passed at this time were the 13^th, 14^th and 15^th amendments to the constitution of the United States of America. The 13^th amendment ended slavery in the entire country. Remember the Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in the Confederacy. The war ended in April of 1865, but the 13^th amendment was not signed into law until December 1865. This was partially because the senate had approved it had difficulty getting approval in the House of Representatives. Incidentally Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey all fought with the Union and refused to ratify the Amendment initially, but you wont here that very often. I will make no argument that slavery was wrong and should have been abolished. I don't believe slavery should have ever existed in the country. If it had not been for slavery and reconstruction black and white relations would probably not be as bad as they can be at times in this country. This uncompensated freedom financially hurt the south deeply furthering the northern control of the former Confederate States.

The 14^th amendment to Constitution of the United States of America was passed in July 1968. There are several parts to the amendment from dealing with citizenship and equal protection under the law. The main point of the amendment in regards to Reconstruction is that it's established that the former slaves were citizens since they are born in the United States. Unfortunately this law is often misinterpreted that illegal aliens who are here to leech off the country can come here and their children are, as of now, considered citizens. Thus they are eligible for welfare, food stamps, Medicaid and various other benefits that cost the American taxpayer large sums of money and has a great amount of harm on the country. That is one debate that is still not settled from this amendment. Many of these criminal illegal aliens come over here knowing they are going to have a kid here because the hospital can't turn them away. At least not yet. This basically made all states recognize the rights of the former slaves. There also was a provision against those who participated in the Rebellion which was the Civil War. People at certain positions in the Confederacy were not able to hold various offices. Many such as Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis had their citizenship revoked because of this, but it was later restored by Congress after their deaths.

The 15^th amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified in February 1870. This basically says that if you are a citizen you have a right to vote and states can't stop that based on your race, color, or previous condition of servitude meaning slavery. Once again states that were loyal to the Union such as Delaware, Maryland, and California did not ratify the Amendment until the 1900s. Not all issues were resolved by this and the Voting Rights Act was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. Again in a brief lapse of sanity the law had that ballots would be available in other languages catering to the illegal immigrant lobby. Their anchor babies are usually the reason that you need multi-lingual ballots. I firmly believe with the access people have for education today that if you can't read and write, you should not be able to vote. Many liberals fear this because they probably know Obama would have lost more votes than McCain if this was the case based on party demographics. Everyone can get an education. By thinking certain people would be disenfranchised by having to know how to read you are just saying certain people are less intelligent than others. There are exceptions to this. In most states felons cant vote, although groups like the NAACP are trying to change this saying it disenfranchising black males, yet the same groups get made when crime and race statistics show that as a percentage of population blacks are more likely to be in prison or a felon. These stats are also from the NAACP and various groups and not racist stats designed to disparage people.

While many will argue that these amendments were designed with fairness for all in mind there is a much more sinister side to them. As I mentioned many of the Radicals wanted to punish the South during the Reconstruction period of 1863-1877 when President Rutherford B. Hayes removed the last of the federal troops. Southern whites often could not vote because they had served in the Confederate Army and almost all former Confederate officers could not. The reality is that secession was not something that all southerners wanted. In reality it was the wealthy land owners that had the slaves that wanted to leave the Union in many cases. There were others who did not like big government and even thought they owned no slaves, they believed it was the right of the government to dictate how the southerners should run their lives. The Yankees were pretty horrible to new arrivals from other countries. The thing to remember is that in war "to the victor go the spoils". The north to set the terms for peace and instead of a fair and just peace, they thought to attempt to destroy the south. What they got was a legacy of hate that continues to this day. Negroes were used in part to do this. Imagine someone who used to work for you all of a sudden being your boss and you could do nothing about it. This is what happened. Southerners who had made many of those states great for generations could not even vote. They were being represented by blacks in the Senate and House in many cases with Yankee rifles pointed their way. The Reconstruction period ended in 1877 when President Rutherford B. Hayes removed the last of the federal troops from former Confederate states leaving the Negroes, scallywags, and carpetbaggers to fend for themselves against the southern people that they have been thumbing their noses as like having blacks represent states in Congress that they never would have been elected to in a fair election. These people now were left with an economically crippled South that was really pissed off. IF you read history you know about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, people being lynched (many of whom were white) and other things that occurred. While all of these were wrong I believe that the Yankees used the blacks without regard for their safety and left them out in the cold to the people they were using blacks to put down for political leverage. As in the movie Glory there were even "colored regiments" that were patrolling and looting towns in the south and burning towns. What did people expect the southern man to do? I think anyone who talks about the bigotry in the south needs to also look at the way blacks were used by the northern agitators and then left out in the cold.

Now that we have some important background information here is what is really interesting about the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th amendments. Basically the puppet governments set up by the Union totally disenfranchised the people of the South. Unless you were a carpetbagger, fought with the Union, black, or one of a very few white citizens you could not vote at first. Very few admit it, but there were several black troops in the Confederate army. They were allowed to vote but white Confederate veterans could not. Therefore the government was really not representative of the people since less than 25% of the population could vote. Because of this the Reconstruction amendments were therefore passed illegally and null and void in the former confederate states. Now before everyone cries racist and says I support slavery listen. I am pointing out the hypocrisy of the Union that is rarely known to people. Several states did not even ratify these amendments until the 1900's making points in those laws illegal if you look at it based on the letter of the law. If you want to be technical the 13^th amendment was an unfounded mandate from to southern states without proper funding for the process. There were former slaves who felt they were almost better off under slavery. Now they were not guaranteed food or shelter as before. Now I think slavery is horrible and no one should be a slave, but this is something many people never consider. You also need to think that if a state like Virginia decided to remain loyal to the union would Slavery be as likely to have been abolished. If you think so I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.

In keeping with the thesis let's assume that the Reconstruction Amendments were deemed illegal back in the time frame they were passed, or even in the early 1900s. What do we think would happen? I do believe that slavery would eventually end on its own by the 1900s. That is not right or fair because of the horrible ways that many slaves were treated. There are a variety of sources out there that will elaborate on the rapes and things that slaves endured at the hands of some slave masters. Even though slavery was very wrong it can't be denied that many slave owners that were very good to their slaves and their slaves were very happy with them.

The fourteenth amendment does have valid points in it, but I will say the way that it is misinterpreted by allow vermin who cross our borders illegally to get citizenship for their children sickens me. It should sicken any patriotic American who became a citizen the legal way, or if like me, you or relatives have fought to protect this great land. I have had family in every conflict in this nation since the Revolutionary war until the War on Terror. I also had family on both sides of the conflict during the War Between the States. There is much more out there on illegal roaches sneaking into our country and their kids getting welfare, food stamps, and all that based on birthright citizenship. I feel bad for the kids, but they should not there are legal citizens that could use the help and taxpayers who could use the relief. One way the Reconstruction amendments typically have an effect on this is the nature of how decedents of slaves tend to view this. Now not all black people or white people feel a certain way, but more blacks are lenient towards illegal immigrants and birthright citizenship than white people. The reality is these illegal aliens compete for more jobs with blacks than they do with whites white people but the Negro race can't seem to grasp that as a whole. If there is a people that should be concerned it is that group. This of course would not be the case if there is some conspiracy to "get whitey when they are outnumbered". NO I don't think that, but there has to be a reason so many blacks are more lenient to it. It is understandable that when you are part of a group that was oppressed that you tend to be more liberal, but remember there was no 14^th amendment, or at least it was not ratified by Texas were most of them entered the country through. California, where many enter as well, did not ratify the amendment until 1959 and had they know what is going on now probably would not have. Now I know 2/3 of states are all that is required to ratify an amendment, but what people must recall is that all of the states under northern occupation would not have voted for these if the citizens were given the right they have to vote under the constitution, therefore they were null and void.

Now the 15^th amendment is the trickiest one. Yes people should have the right to vote regardless of the reasons that often had been used to keep people from voting, but let's remember we are looking at this purely from a historical standpoint. None of the governments in the former Confederate States were valid because of this. They even had black representatives elected by the puppet government. Even some states loyal to the union did not ratify it for some time until the 1900s like Maryland and Delaware, so if the people were given their rights in the former Confederate States the amendment would have failed. When we examine this amendment further it is interesting on some historical things that might not have happened.

For one thing Bill Clinton would never have been President if Blacks and Hispanics could not vote. Again I am not saying the groups should not, but with things that he did it is rather interesting that groups these amendments directly allowed to vote ( I am sure at least 60% of Latinos in the country have an illegal relative if you go back to the grandparents and I don't buy that stolen continent crap). I will say fairly if white people could not vote George W. Bush would never have been in office, but since white males were guaranteed rights in the original constitution it's a null point. All further legislation does is take rights away from white males (affirmative action, racial gerrymandering of districts), but many say that is not the case. Most of the support for illegal aliens also comes from the minority community so we would have secure borders and multi-lingual education would not be required because people who don't belong here anyway are too stupid or lazy to learn English. The same people would not eat up all the tax dollars or add to the prison population. Just think of the savings in tax revenue. Eventually blacks would gain the rights, but I the illegal vermin plaguing our country (and I don't care what color illegals are) would not be an issue.

In the tradition of minorities getting and inch and pushing for a mile the Voting Rights Act would not have been produced by that Southern disgrace Lyndon Johnson. You can read up on his feelings about blacks. He was bigoted as bigoted as many southerners. He just figured that "those niggers will do what we (democrats) tell them for a hundred years". This bill banned poll taxes and literacy tests as a requirement to vote and allowed for ballots in languages other than English. It also dealt with allowing for congressional districts to be created for the sole purpose of electing Negroes and Latinos to congress. This seems to be racist in and of itself. It is also worth noting that in doing this it assured more people who would mindlessly vote for Democrats, but many ( not all) were not enlightened enough to understand it. This is the most discriminatory part of the law. It is like you are fighting racism with more racism.

Now another thing that would never have happened had it not been for the Reconstruction amendments is the assent ion of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of President. Personally I don't think the man was qualified for the Job. George Bush was a moron, but he as a governor and did have the experience that Obama did not. Also not many people could say "When you redistribute the wealth its good for everyone" would get elected. He is also the first president to remotely pull anything like forcing healthcare on the American people with an individual mandate. I think this is a prime reason to prove the man is a socialist. Call me a bigot if you like, but I firmly believe that a majority of people who voted for Obama who were black and Latino mindlessly voted for him because of his skin color and the fact they thought it would be more handouts. You can validate this for yourself by asking many minorities why they voted for him. Most will say "he wanted change," or "he was one of us". Very few that I have encountered actually know anything else about the man. The Delaware News Journal actually had a statistic that showed that only 55% of blacks could tell you that Obama was a Senator, yet there is claim racism was not a reason they voted for him. This is why I think literacy and basic education tests are needed to vote. At the time I see why literacy tests were wrong, but now anyone can get an education. IF you can't read the ballot in English and have basic common sense then you shouldn't be able to vote. If some little old black lady said Obama will keep her section 8 from being taken away I could even deal with that. At least the person knew something about him. There are actually people who thought Obama was a republican. While McCain favored a form of amnesty for illegal vermin, Obama is almost open borders advocate. He also is the worst military commanding president we have had in recent history and his own party said that during the primary, but the Democrats did stick together after the primaries and, as usual, they took the Negro vote for granted. The democrats clearly pander to the votes of minorities. Do you think democrats would ever propose drug testing for welfare recipients? I know damn well the average democrat would not, especially people like Larry, Moe, and Curly (Obama, Reid, and Pelosi) because it would anger blacks and Latinos. Now not all people on welfare are minority. As a matter of fact there are more white people on public assistance. The results are different when you look at the roles and base it on the percentage of people by race on such programs compared to their percentage of race in the United States demographics. Look it up. If that is a racist stat you will that blacks only make up 13% of the amount of the total people on welfare like percentage of the population they make up. Of course people find excuses for that, but the truth is the truth. It has nothing to do with inferiority of one race than the other, but the hatred caused by reconstruction. The same experiment could be done for prison population rates. People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and company should be finding ways to educate people than teaching a culture of looking at the United States as a welfare state. This does nothing but divide the country further.

Ok back to 2010. No, slavery should not have been kept and yes blacks should be allowed to vote and be treated equally. My purpose here was basically to have people objectively (I doubt most will) at a topic that most people do not want to consider. I would ask that you honestly think about it. Think of some of the issues that occur in this country and if they may not be that way have civil rights and things not had been rushed recklessly the way the government did. In all fairness the government did what they thought was right at the time.

I welcome comments. People can think what they like about me. I know what is in my heart. I am simply presenting a view many people would not think to do. I firmly oppose slavery and think all should be treated equally before the law. I do see the country is going to hell though and part of that is based on the skewed idea of multiculturalism. America was a great country and still is for the most part. Think of who was managing the country at that time. Think of how the laws were passed. Who passed them and so forth. If this idea is racist then so be it, but I give the United States 50 years once it is minority white, especially if things such as bilingual and all that crap come in.

Sources and interesting further reading.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_31.htm

http://baic.house.gov/historical-essays/essay.html?intID=5&intSectionID=25

http://www.project.org/info.php?recordID=174

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26368

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26368

http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h46-am2.htm

http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Post-Civil+War+Reconstruction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML0wlG2ja2M&playnext_from=TL&videos=EtTszwLNxSM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK-9G7rBzRI&playnext_from=TL&videos=rYq4P2I_cWw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZnX9JRo5M&playnext_from=TL&videos=kek25TwuQ1Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHN7JUfUxPw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUv9kIklrXc