son of witless wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHnJ2sTIVUI
Well Mrs. Obama that was your choice. You did not have to live there. If the origins of your residence offend you then go ahead and leave. Leave early. There are plenty of Americans who would be proud and not ashamed of living where you do. There are many other historical facts associated with the White House that are positive, but if you must focus on the negative, you might note that every morning you wake up in a house where the husband of the woman you support to be the next President committed adultery.
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Michelle Obama Claims the White House Was ‘Built by Slaves’… But There’s One HUGE Problem
by Top Right News on June 4, 2016 in Uncategorized
by Brooke Bosca | Top Right News
Michelle Obama gave the commencement address to graduates of City College in New York. While she was trying to inspire the students, Obama could not refrain from injecting race into it, as shealways seems to do:
“It’s the story that I witness every single day, when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, black young women – head off to school, waving goodbye to their father, the President of the United States…
While I think it’s fair to say that our Founding Fathers never could have imagined this day… you are the fruits of their labor. Their legacy is very much your legacy.”
There’s just one big problem with her statement, which has also been echoed by her husband: it’s not entirely true. But don’t expect the media to tell you why.
First, the White House was not built solely — or even primarily — by slaves.
Most of the labor force consisted of local White laborers and artisans (from Maryland and Virginia) and a number of immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, and other European nations.
As the project neared completion — the lime-based whitewashing that gives the building its iconic appearance…slaves were indeed added to the mix.
But once again, facts get in the way of the Obama’s preachy race-baiting.
That’s because the U.S. government actually paid the slaves who worked on the White House