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The official presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale. White House Collection
A portrait of Thomas Jefferson from 1786 during his time in London. The painting was by Mather Brown. National Portrait Gallery Via Wikipedia

Tom Jefferson’s one-eighth Black kids

Happy 250th anniversary?Did you see the depressing poll published over the weekend that shows less than 50 percent of Americans knows what July 4th is actually celebrating?How did our education system, parents at home, fail us so miserably?A 2026 national poll by the Cato Institute revealed that 46 percent of Americans don’t know that the holiday and America’s 250th anniversary commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.Only 53 percent correctly identified the Declaration as the holiday’s meaning, with younger generations showing the least civic knowledge.Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012, had the lowest number — 39 percent. Meaning,

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