President's Day
Remember when Tom Sawyer duped his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly's picket fence? I was reminded of that story by the efforts of the Trump administration to whitewash American history. On the recent President's Day this fiction-becoming-fact parallel hit home with news that signs at the President's House in Philadelphia were removed because they stated that George Washington kept nine enslaved people there. Doing this to somehow burnish the reputation of one who reportedly "could not tell a lie" is in itself a lie. Let's not be duped into believing that our checkered past of 246 years of Black enslavement, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws can be simply covered over and forgotten.
- ← Previous
Fight Truth Decay - Next →
I Like Ike