re: I am pleased that the House will vote next week on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Ac

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So we can’t name schools after our founding fathers because they lived in a time of slavery and did not speak out against it.

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George Washington and Jefferson actually did speak out against slavery. George Washington had to keep his willed manumissions of his slaves secret from his heirs until he was on his death bead because he was afraid they’d circumvent his wishes. Something like that at that time was seen as radical.