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Arnon Louiv on My Daughter’s Dilemma now available on Amazon…

My new film, starring Otmara Marrero, star of Sony Pictures Series StartUp, directed with Fernando Lugo, musical director for Bad Bunny. The story of two young girls, Samantha and Paloma. They come from dysfunctional families and live secret lives; when there is a murder in the family, Samantha while seeking the truth, discovers some dark secret about their own parents.

Arnon Louiv on Euclid, the Greek Mathematician and Abraham Lincoln on blacks…

First, it is important to note that history tells us that Abraham Lincoln was a school dropout after grade school. Lincoln became then a voracious reader and educated himself to eventually become the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the divided nation through the American Civil War, in its bloodiest war and in its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In 2019, ironically, the United States is again in its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.

How did Lincoln come to realize that the founding fathers had basically being hypocrites under the law and in writing the constitution? Through the fact that slavery was wrong and an aberration and a disgrace when confronted with the written words of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration states: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal…”

The founding fathers of the United States, including Thomas Jefferson (to this day my favorite president along with Mr. Lincoln), held black slaves. He himself knew it was wrong and did nothing about it.

But, Abraham Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery and fight he did to the end until the 13th Amendment was passed and ratified.

The film Lincoln by Steven Spielberg brilliantly shows a scene where Mr. Lincoln is sitting alone in the war room, which is pretty much deserted except for two young men looking at Mr. Lincoln and ready to send a telegraph to the union general. Lincoln, as curious as ever and still open to learn something new, asks a question to one of the young men, and his answer leads Mr. Lincoln to bring up the great Greek Mathematician, Euclid – “If two things are equal to the same thing, they are equal to each other.” Or the logical proposition expounded by Euclid can go also like this: “If two things are equal to a third thing, they are equal to each other.”

The film does NOT go into detail about the largest and deepest meaning, the fact that in  the opening of the Declaration of Independence, God is the main character of the declaration written by men. Therefore, it is logical and conclusive that Abraham Lincoln was thinking like this: “If a white man and a white woman were created by God, and if a black man and a black woman were created by God, then both black and white human beings are equal before God.”

The writers of the Constitution knew this, they just did not want at the time to hurt their businesses and profits generated by the very evil business of slavery. No human being should enslave another.

Think about this and what the current administration is doing with immigrants today. Not only here and in other countries as well. The so-called illegals and children of illegals are the new slaves or, at least discarded pawns, in the political polarization of hypocrisy.