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No, that is not what I want to say. I would be the last person to victimize victims. It is what I uttered one day very reflexively very sympathetically.

Growing up, I heard the expression: Columbus is the discoverer of America. Knowing that native Americans were living in the land that Columbus was assumed to have discovered makes that discovery the most discredited one.

Years later, I heard that it was the leaders of Spain who sponsored Columbus' transatlantic voyage.

America has now seen a total of 46 Presidents. A quick online reading indicates that none of them has either Italian or Spanish ancestry. How did they fail to land a single President of these ancestries in the Oval Office so far?

That wasn't the source of my reflex one of the days. I have lived in two States. I am one of those people who doesn't like going to public restrooms. In both States, it appears to me that Spaniards disproportionately work as janitors. One of the days, I saw a pretty young Spaniard girl that any man would fall for work as a janitor. That was the moment when I reflexively uttered to myself shame on Spaniards. Don't get me wrong that I believe that physique instead of content needs to be the metric for any kind of labor. I sometimes say shame on scientists for not coming up with ways to abolish working as janitors.

Since that specific moment, I kept asking myself how they couldn't do better so far in landing a single Spaniard as an American President in the Oval Office. I remember hearing or reading that they lost war in Florida, they lost Arizona and New Mexico in a war, and that a Mexican Spaniard General sold California to America.

Then I kept remembering a seemingly sinister government survey that I had to answer for official government businesses. The survey went Hispanic or Not Hispanic. Starting the first time I read it, it failed to make much sense to me.

So, how is it that the leaders of Spain sponsored the Italian explorer Columbus to "discover" America and that they have yet to assume the top executive leadership position in America when it has seen 46 of them so far? This is a question of simple curiosity. Is a Spaniard man in America enslaved by a British numskull in America ever since Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain sponsored Columbus' transatlantic voyage more than five centuries ago?

One of the eye-openers for me about the history of America is the ancestral background of its presidents. I came up on the data at this link very recently. I assume it is accurate.

Out of a total of its 46 Presidents so far, only six do not have some English ancestry. That means the remaining 40 Presidents, about 87 percent, have full or some level of English ancestry. Never in my wildest dreams have I ever imagined such lopsided data in a country that advertises itself as democratic.

I am forever grateful for some American policy makers that had the foresight for the benefit of international cultural exchange opportunities after the end of the second World War. If it weren't for that opportunity, I would have most likely passed thinking America is a democratic dream country. I now think that the cultural experience I have been gaining in America has been more valuable than the educational reinforcement I gained through that opportunity.

Even more interesting in the above numbers is that its two outstanding Presidents who were assassinated while they were still in office, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, had the conviction that slavery is undemocratic. Andrew Johnson became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Lyndon B. Johnson became President after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I do not know if Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson have some level of common ancestral background.

So, what does this make America's White House from where its Presidents worked and continue to work and the America that these people led and continue to lead? After reading such eye-opening data about its Presidents, would it be wrong if my mind imagines America's White House as a merchant of slavery and America as a tutelage of the old British Empire? That is what my little brain tells me after my eyes are opened to the data.

If my little brain is not failing me about this data, why is it that inexperienced and unwise young people, including from Ethiopia, willingly become enslaved or continue to be by a merchant of slavery? If it is a shame for America's Spaniards not landing a single President in the Oval Office so far, it should be a shame for those willingly become enslaved or continue to be by a merchant of slavery.