Hanging From A Family Tree Is Nothing Like Having One

Somebody better contact Red State because, I'm positive, I've been told this isn't so:

"It is often said, fairly and correctly, that America’s Original Sin is slavery. The atrocity that was chattel slavery, like most atrocities, had its contours, its highs and lows — George Washington, a slaveholder, spent a large sum of his wife’s fortune maintaining the elderly, the crippled, and the sick among his slaves — but any system that renders humans to the same legal status as objects, who can be sold or bought or killed or beaten or abandoned or traded away without legal consequence, is undeniably an atrocity, a grave mortal sin with few peers. It is a sin that echoes to this day, we paid a terrible price in blood and hatred to end it, and despite that, we live in its awful wake." 

Some of us more than others, but yeah - I hear ya,…