pot calling the kettle black (2)

Is it not upsetting to you too that some of our most esteemed American presidents in US history have been involved with some of the worst atrocities in human history? And then, they try to pretend like they were innocent all along. Based on Ronald Takaki's research, Thomas Jefferson owned 267 slaves. Not one or two. Two hundred and sixty seven SLAVES. That statistic is mind-boggling! Andrew Jackson (mentioned in an earlier post) believed it was perfectly alright to wipe out the entire Native American populations. Well, not entirely, I guess. Only if it was not in the US government's best financial & political interests! I won't even try to figure out what Benjamin Franklin meant when he said that he hoped for a country comprised of the "lovely white(s)." These are three men whose reputation is heralded by history textbooks and whose heads have been pressed into our currency. Does it make anyone else sick to their stomach that we have a special day designated to honor some of our past US presidents? I need to go. I'm staring to get dizzy....