Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. So when are we going to take them off the money? Shut down Mount Vernon and Monticello? Demolish the Washington and Jefferson memorials in DC? Rename the nation’s crapital, the State of Washington, and Jefferson, Missouri? Not to mention all those Washington and Jefferson schools here and there, and Washington and Lee University.
People need to GET A GRIP. Have all the grownups died off and left the children running things? That’s sure what it seems like sometimes.
The United States has never been perfect. Yes, some people in our country used to own slaves. Yes, that was wrong. It was so wrong that we decided to abolish slavery. The United States will never be perfect. The only thing we can do is admit we have flaws and have a (mostly polite) discussion about how to do better. Pretending that it never happened won’t change anything.