Selma: After ignoring the battle that ended slavery under the first Republican president, President Obama at the 50th anniversary of Democrats' blocking the Selma bridge says, "We're the slaves that built the White House."
The parts of American history that this president chooses to commemorate and what he says about them speaks volumes about his view of America and American history.
His America is not only unexceptional, it is perpetually and deeply racist, an overbearing world bully with no right to lecture the world about morality, democracy or freedom.
He reminded us over the weekend that despite any progress since then, "We just need to open our eyes, our ears and our hearts to know that this nation's racial history still casts its long shadow upon us." Or just look at the police department in Ferguson, Mo.?
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To Obama, the White House is not the home of the leaders of the world's oldest democracy, but a structure built by slaves.
It's also the place George Washington made beer, he told NBC's Samantha Guthrie in a Super Bowl interview. Problem is, the White House was finished in 1800, George Washington never slept there and the first president to live there was our second, John Adams.
His reference to slaves building the White House came during the observance of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
It is a significant part of American history and one that deserves commemoration. But it should not be exploited as a springboard for distorting that history or for continuing to paint an America that elected and re-elected an African American president as perpetually and irredeemably racist.Read the rest of the IBD editorial HERE.
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