Correction

In my recent post "Statues Are Not History" I wrote, "Washington and Jefferson fought to create and preserve this country."  It has been brought to my attention by several readers and by the cake-faced Tina Fey that the country required no creation, it was already here, and Washington and Jefferson were part of the effort by white European colonists to steal the country from its native inhabitants.  

This is correct.  Buster regrets the error.

Founding Fathers like George and Thomas are rightly honored by historians for throwing off the imperial yoke of British colonialism and establishing the principles of modern democracy.  Historians also point out that they were part of the long, deliberate genocide of our country's original occupants.  Some draw a straight line from the American Revolution and the Constitution (with state representation based on population, and slaves counted as three-fifths of a person) to the Civil War.

We place our idols upon pedestals so we may see their feet of clay.