Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Just as she did on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, it has become very fashionable, even unsuspecting, for First Lady Michelle Obama to travel the country and in her speeches declare: “I wake up every morning in a house built by slaves.” The only problem is that she is partially right, one-sixth right to be exact. In fact, white indentured servants, newly arrived immigrants, free blacks and poor whites known as “white trash,” were also employed in building the White House and the nation’s Capitol. What’s more, America’s original ruling and corporate class’s footprint has never disappeared, merely replaced by others who pit...
