No idea why you think Merl and I don't know this, or would be upset to find out, but most of America's past (especially east of the Mississippi) is intertwined with slavery.

It's a sad, horrible legacy we can't undo, but should keep trying to repair.

And the endowment thing is a bit of a scandal. Why should schools with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars keep charging more, and more, and more to go to school there?

I went to Ohio State, and I've nothing to be ashamed of. Harvard can kiss my ass.