Email to Thomas DiLorenzo

November 25, 2009
Thomas DiLorenzo
TDilo@aol.com
Dear Thomas,
Letter of Congratulations and to Ask for Permission to Use Excerpts
I write this to congratulate you on the great work you have been doing on Lincoln. I have read about two or three of your books now and each of them is supreme. My only problem is that each of them is even better than the other. The last one I am reading now is Lincoln Unmasked. I am towards the end and I could not just keep it down. Few books have ever captivated me like this and your other books.
I just think that you are done a great job of unmasking this great fraud that is the Lincoln Cult. I knew that something was wrong about Lincoln and the way it is being taught in schools, and I was not comfortable because they did not fit.
I attended a conference on Lincoln in 2006 where traditional Lincoln scholars kept praising and deifying Lincoln as they usually and I had nothing to challenge them with but it was clear to me that Emancipation Proclamation which did not free a single slave did not and could not have entitled Lincoln to the unprecedented adulation and admiration by the system. As an African-American, I was especially offended by his title as the Emancipator.
I was, therefore literally lynched at the conference when I told them that I did not think that Lincoln deserved the praise and reputation accorded him. Many of the attendees were social studies teachers who were all happy and agreed with the presentations. One African-American social studies teacher even told me that I sounded like I should be grateful to Lincoln we might have been in slavery if not for his efforts.
Well, I have since been doing more research and reading up on the real Lincoln as opposed to the fake Lincoln that pervades the system and our schools, and you are clearly the best. You are an inspiration. You demonstrate the vigor, the energy that is necessary to dispel this great American fraud.
I have a book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility – Volume One which will be published in spring 2010. The book is about the high level of organized institutional disinformation and the corresponding sorry level ignorance and apathy that pervade the system. I will be posting this my email to you on my website – socialjusticecenter.com. I will also advertise your books and post your relevant articles on my website for more others to read.
I like your works. I will read anything you write that I can lay my hands on because I have read enough of your works now to declare myself your life-long fan. And I will always quote or cite you favorably in my own books, articles, teaching, etc.
Again, thanks so much for your great, informative inspiring and courageous academic works. Keep it up and God Bless.
Yours truly,
In the Business of Academia
Amechi Okolo, Ph.D.
New York, USA.
omeoka@aol.com
November 25, 2009