Posted on 03/07/2015 5:49:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
Obama: ‘We’re the Slaves Who Built the White House’
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You didn’t build that yourselves.
The quality is too good. It can’t have been you, Barack.
This guy ain’t even black!
Hahahaha!
It’s going to be a looooong 2 years!
Nor is he of slave blood.
Oh please!!!! And my ancestors were the people who built the Brooklyn Bridge and New York subways and got paid less than black Americans.
I hate this demonic, polarizing bastard so much.
You can say that again....but only for a few months...Than God!
this guy just lets his HATE RIP doesnt he!
Gee Barry, I thought your African ancestors were the guys who sold your fellow Africans away as slaves.
slaves sure didnt!
He is way way out of hand.
the floors would have collapsed the first time they bore any weight if OBIE boy had anuthing to do with building the place
“This guy ain’t even black!”
Yes, he is a TOTAL FRAUD. He is not even a 100% African American. In fact, he is not even an American...in the patriotic sense, at least.
Our semi-black President hasn’t done a lick of work since he was spawned. His entire life has been with the communist elite sponging off society for a free ride.
And after we hear of his triumph in Selma, we’ll have to hear all about his College Basketball picks. THAT really makes me ill..
My husbands home country....”eeen doh knees yuh!!! “
what a complete jerk this clown prince is
he knows he can offend anyone at any time now....and WILL!
1790s
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far from a major population center. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave states–Virginia and Maryland–ultimately influenced the acquisition of laborers to construct its public buildings. The D.C. commissioners, charged by Congress with building the new city under the direction of the president, initially planned to import workers from Europe to meet their labor needs. However, response to recruitment was dismal and soon they turned to African Americans – slave and free – to provide the bulk of labor that built the White House, the United States Capitol, and other early government buildings.
A major concern in the construction of the new public buildings in this remote location was the acquisition of building materials, such as stone, lumber, bricks, hardware, and nails. Black quarrymen, sawyers, brickmakers, and carpenters fashioned raw materials into the products used to erect the White House. Master stonemason, Collen Williamson, trained slaves on the spot at the government’s quarry at Aquia, Virginia. There slaves quarried and cut the rough stone that was later dressed and laid by Scottish stonecutters to erect the walls of the President’s House. Sawyers listed on government payrolls, such as “Jerry”, “Jess”, “Charles”, “Len”, “Dick”, “Bill” and “Jim” undoubtedly were slaves leased from their masters. Free and slave blacks burnt bricks used to line the stone walls in temporary ricks on the President’s House grounds. Often working seven days a week during the high construction summer months alongside white workers and artisans, black laborers proved vital to the work force that created both the White House and U.S. Capitol.
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/history/white-house-timelines/african-americans-1790s-1840s.html
Slavery existed in every country and it was the norm many years before the revolution. Our country was the first to do away with it. #uck this race baiter, may he burn in hell!
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