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To: allmendream

“”Founders, like Jefferson, that have inspired freedom””

From Jefferson...

Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me,that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one [black] could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in
imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. It would be unfair to follow them to Africa for this investigation. We will consider them here, on the same stage with the whites, and where

....The Indians, with no advantages of this kind, will
often carve figures on their pipes not destitute of design and merit. They will crayon out an animal, a plant, or a country, so as to prove the existence of a germ in their minds which only wants cultivation. They astonish you with strokes of the most sublime oratory; such as prove their
reason and sentiment strong, their imagination glowing and elevated. But never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration;
http://www.historytools.org/sources/Jefferson-Race.pdf

You call this promotion of freedom?

I have work to do.You can worship Jefferson by yourself if you wish


3 posted on 05/13/2011 6:00:54 AM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: stfassisi
Yes, he inspired freedom and the idea that all men are created with equal rights.

Recognition of the impact Jefferson made upon history is not “worship” you bootlicking Monarchist.

4 posted on 05/13/2011 6:22:09 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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