july 4th 
Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 10:25:41 AM EDT
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Other than the opportunity to overeat at BBQs and getting a paid day off from work, I am not into celebrating the 4th of July. We all know the background story: Thomas Jefferson, wielding a pen, blows apart the relationship between Britain and its American colonies, eloquently extolling freedom and equality in the Declaration of Independence. Except that of course he owned slaves. And he had a long-term relationship with one of those slaves, Sally Hemings, with whom he had several children. And then those children were denied their heritage, not to mention remained stripped of their equal rights for many generations.
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