A holiday to honor someone who owned hundreds of slaves for over 50 years,

[Glassunion]

134. We all have our prejudices. Yours are just different from mine.

You were raised in the belief system that George Washington was a man of upright, steadfast, and honest character. He was a virtuous statesman, who viewed that service as a charge by God himself, to act in self sacrifice, and service to a nation.

I was raised in the belief that he owned humans just like my great, great, great grandma. Who's good fortune, wealth and success was borne on the backs of kidnapped, tortured, and oppressed human beings who were looked at with no more thought than that of a biting insect. With those same feelings, on those very same insects, carried forward through generations, to my own mother's, where the insect was not allowed a seat, or a drink at the fountain, or a table, or a classroom.

So you are correct. If it were not for men like Washington, if we instead had more men who actually stood up for liberty, and freedom (for all), we may never of had the great Atlantic Slave trade, the Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, a need for the NAACP, the Great Migration, lynchings, segregation, Pigford v. Glickman, Internment, the National Origins Act, the Yellow Peril, native displacement, the Indian Removal, etc, etc, etc... If we had those of high moral fiber, who believed in liberty, and freedom for all, who were not afraid of what their neighbors might whisper behind their backs, afraid of killing their political careers, or alienating their fellow sociopaths, then yes. You are correct, America would not be as it is today.