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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 40395, member: 824&quot;]Guess you&#039;re right.&nbsp; Even though slavery was legal back in the 18th Century, how <b>dare</b> we honor our founding fathers.&nbsp; Matter of fact, we should take their names off of bridges, schools, and all memorials.&nbsp; Before children learn about their lives and their contributions to forming this country, we need to state up front that some of them were slave owners.&nbsp; If that offends you, we can direct you to many politically correct history books that are now being taught in our school systems.&nbsp; We&#039;ll set up a separate class for those kids and they could all hold hands and sing non-offensive songs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Correlating slave ownership, a wrong, to the fact they purposedly did not want actual people (living or dead) to grace American coinage is just like stating the reason why Washington lost more battles during the Revolution than he won was because he owned slaves!?!&nbsp; Also, the Constitution that was written by these very people has survived quite well into 21st Century.&nbsp; Sure, we added amendments along the way, but the heart and soul of this document written by slave owners has endured for the ages.&nbsp; I can see a argument in front of the Supreme Court that a court ruling is unconsititional because some of the framers of this document owned slaves, therefore, eveything should be null and void.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are going to get razzled because men like Washington and Jefferson owned slaves, then edit their names OFF of everything.&nbsp; Schools, bridges, buildings and of course coins.&nbsp; It is already happening in some school districts where minorities have petitioned school boards to change high school names of Jefferson to more politcally sensitive deserving people.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re right...our fouding fathers were evil slave owners and their writings and historical contributions should be all taken with a &quot;grain of salt&quot;.&nbsp; What were they thinking when they purposedly decided that no person (living or dead) should grace our coins?&nbsp; What do you expect from slave owners?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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