Washington too! Let’s see them ask about that.
SOURCE:
http://www.quora.com/How-many-of-Americas-founding-fathers-were-slave-owners
Of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 49% owned slaves.
The slave owners were:
Richard Bassett (DE)
Jacob Broom (DE)
John Dickinson (DE)
George Read (DE)
William Houstoun (GA)
William Few (GA)
William Samuel Johnson (CT)
Daniel Carroll (MD)
Luther Martin (MD)
John Francis Mercer (MD)
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (MD)
William Livingston (NJ)
William Blount (NC)
William Richardson Davie (NC)
Alexander Martin (NC)
Richard Dobbs Spaight (NC)
Pierce Butler (SC)
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (SC)
Charles Pinckney (SC)
John Rutledge (SC)
John Blair (VA)
James Madison (VA)
George Mason (VA)
Edmund Randolph (VA)
George Washington (VA)
George Wythe (VA)
Robert Morris (PA)
There are borderline cases among the above.
Robert Morris did not personally own slaves but did own a slave ship and invested in plantations using slaves. I’ve listed him as a slave owner since he was a direct participant in slavery and the slave trade.
Some slave owners emancipated their slaves (Richard Bassett and John Dickinson). Other slave owners opposed slavery and supported abolition (Jacob Broom and William Samuel Johnson). Other slave owners opposed the slave trade if not slavery itself.
Of the 26 slaveowners, 19 owned multiple slaves and relied on slave labor for their livelihood.
It is only a matter of time (and it will be astonishingly short) before display of the familiar Stars and Stripes, the United States national flag, is banned from display, just like the Northern Virginia battle flag, the Stars and Bars, is being driven underground everywhere.
The Stars and Stripes will be deemed too “reminiscent” of the “oppressive” history of the bad old United States of America, a nation once located on the North American continent, but now apparently eclipsed by history.
Fundamental transformation can go TOO far, you know.
Consider South Africa.
And Abraham Lincoln
We’ll have to rename Washington D.C.
I propose we call it “George Washington Carver D.C.”, because then we just have to add a couple more words to all the monuments and signs instead of redoing them completely.
Then there’s the one dollar bill. It would cost too much to reprint all those, so let’s just tell everyone to color him in with a brown crayon. Anyone caught with a “white Washington” single will have to forfeit it as contraband.