Today,
February 22, is Washington’s Birthday. For most of our history, it was
celebrated as a national holiday and deserves to be again. Lincoln’s Birthday
can be combined with that of Martin Luther King and celebrated as “Black Freedom
Day.”
However
great the merits of Martin Luther King may be, they do not outweigh those of
the Father of Our Country, which is what Washington was. Yet this is what is implied by giving King a national holiday but not Washington.
The
communists, socialists, and progressives who attack Washington for owning
slaves have no solid ground on which to do so, for, unlike Washington, who
sought the end of slavery and ultimately freed his slaves, they seek the reimposition
of slavery—for everyone.
Socialism
requires that everyone work for the government, for whatever pittance the government
chooses to pay. This is slavery.
