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Moocher also raised the race issue a number of times, stating she watches her daughters, “black young women,” playing on the White House lawn with their dogs.
Oh yeah, mothers everywhere say they are watching their young (fill in the color) daughters playing.
“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves,” moocher said.
MSNBC:
The White House was built by paid workers from various countries. There’s just one big problem with her statement, which has also been echoed by her husband: it’s not entirely true. But don’t expect the media to tell you why.
First, the White House was not built solely — or even primarily — by slaves.
Most of the labor force consisted of local White laborers and artisans (from Maryland and Virginia) and a number of immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, and other European nations.
As the project neared completion — the lime-based whitewashing that gives the building its iconic appearance…slaves were indeed added to the mix.
But once again, facts get in the way of the Obama’s preachy race-baiting.
That’s because the U.S. government actually paid the slaves who worked on the White House.
One slave — Philip Reid — was paid directly, a sum of $1.25 per day ($31 per day in 2016 dollars). Is it technically “slave labor” — if you are paid?
January can't come soon enough.