Typical Slave Cabin
lived in by
First Lady Michelle Obama’s
Great-Great-Grandfather

Great-Great-Grandaughter
First Lady Michelle Obama’s
New Home

     Founder Noah Webster wrote, “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ...  If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men [and women] in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men [and women] will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men [and women]; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.”
                               (History of the United States, public school textbook, 1832)

     “But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers [slave sellers, buyers and owners] and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.”

                                                         The First Letter of the Apostle Paul to Timothy
                                                                                               chapter 1, verses 8-11

     “Although my grandparents were Polish and Russian immigrants; I am not a Polish American, Russian American or 1/2 Polish and 1/2 Russian American. I am an American who happens to be of Polish and Russian descent. 
     My parents wouldn’t teach me, my brother or sister the Polish and Russian languages because they said we were Americans. 
                                                                                           Bruce Kobiernicki Barilla