President Obama spoke at an annual Washington gathering last night called the Alfafa Club Dinner, which has Confederate roots - something Obama referred to in his remarks:
I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years old. And very confused.
The Alfafa Dinner didn't admit black members until the 1970s.
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