From: Sheila Edward
President's Day appears on the calendar every year. What are we celebrating - furniture sales, car sales, Macy's sale - another opportunity (Holiday) to worship capitalism? Basically that is every holiday. Being that Presidents' Day is during Black History month, how ironic when the founding fathers were all involved in human trafficking and slavery, eight of them owned slaves while in the White House. The way the history books are designed, children today barely understand the "Underground Railroad," and not least importantly, they may never know the rich history intertwined, this country and black people. There had to be much more to the relationship than emptying slop jars, and sweeping their floors. I would like to think that children today are actually smarter than their teachers in elementary, middle, and high school. They can research the available information, and form their own opinions; which most of them do anyway.
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