Black People Politics : Bill O’Reilly says White House slaves ‘were well-fed and had decent lodgings’

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Bill O’Reilly says White House slaves ‘were well-fed and had decent lodgings’


... During Michelle Obama’s speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, the first lady offered a powerful, personal reminder of America’s dark racial history — and just how far the country has come.


“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves,” she said. “And I watch my daughters — two beautiful, intelligent, black young women — playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”

Fox News host and resident historian Bill O’Reilly decided to fact-check that line for viewers of his primetime show on Tuesday night ...



https://www.yahoo.com/news/oreilly-white-house-slaves-well-000000723.html

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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2015 file photo, Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel program "The O'Reilly Factor," poses for photos in New York. O'Reilly responded on his show Tuesday, July 26, 2016, to first lady Michelle Obama's remarks during her speech at the Democratic National Convention Monday that she wakes up "every morning in a house that was built by slaves." O'Reilly said the slaves who helped build the White House "were well-fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government." (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)


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Fact-Checking First Lady Michelle Obama's Saying White House 'Was Built by Slaves'


... D.C. commissioners, according to the association, "charged by Congress with building the new city under the direction of the president," initially planned to import workers from Europe to meet their labor needs.

But recruitment was dismal.

They then turned to African-Americans — "enslaved and free — to provide the bulk of labor that built the White House, the United States Capitol and other early government buildings."

For the raw materials needed to construct the building, a stonemason, Collen Williamson, "trained enslaved people on the spot at the government's quarry" in Virginia, according to the association ...

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/fact-chec...ch-saying-164507264--abc-news-topstories.html

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First lady Michelle Obama delivered a powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Monday night


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