re: #147 MsJ

I was surprised when I finally noticed all of the outrage and disbelief some were expressing today after the FL said that slaves helped build the WH. Raw Story had a post about some RW radio talker who questioned what the FL said. I guess they’d go really bonkers if they knew Benjamin Banneker did the survey work to lay out the streets in D.C, and that he was “blah.” I don’t know where O’Reilly got the idea that slaves were well fed. Food was rationed at the beginning of each week, and if they ate it all before the beginning of the next week, they were SOL. I thought this information was common knowledge, but apparently it’s not for some people. If some of these folks would stop running their mouths so much, they’d have time to study and learn the real history of their own country. Just because their guts tell them something is true does not make it so.