The United States has come a long way since Jefferson’s era. Our moral progress is exemplified by the fact that a black man is President. But this country still falls far short of its professed ideals of peace, equality, justice and liberty for all. Perhaps if Jefferson had set a better ethical example, we would have come further by now.
I skipped down to it and I realized that I didn't have to read the rest of it.
Oh yeah, the last bit was tripe.
But I’m taking it on face value that the Lafayette conversation was real.
“a black man is President”
Actually, he is mixed race.
Herman Cain might have become our first black President, however our one-party press CHOSE to hammer him, as they chose not to hammer Governor Clinton.
How soon we forget. Bill Clinton was our first black President because he came from a broken family headed by a woman, yada, yada, yada.
So depending on how you count, we have had one, two, or no black Presidents to date.
Crazy how often liberals will throw the baby out with the bathwater whenever anything they oppose is found to not be utterly flawless. So annoyed with them picking at splinters in someone else’s eyes w/o ever glimpsing themselves in the mirror!
Reminds me of a famous quotation:
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”
—Carl Schurz, Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, April 18, 1859. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.