BS on that. We entered reverse-discrimination territory a long time ago.
Great article with many enlightening tidbits that you won’t find in most other media sources, unfortunately.
Good piece.
“But is the charge against the Founders justified? “
Yes, some were slave owners. They were also intelligent enough to know they were taking on the improbable with a revolution. To have outlawed slavery at the same time would have meant NO USA. It’s taken over a century since the Civil War, and we haven’t gotten it right yet, evidently. The founders knew that issue would have to wait. They wanted to deal with it, and they did in the Constitution, which is the framework for all of our freedoms. They couldn’t do it all and put their trust in us to finish what they started. We haven’t always done so well.
In a prophetic letter decades earlier ,
President Thomas Jefferson expressed the fears
of many of his contemporaries over conflicts
of states’ rights, westward settlement, federalism and slavery.
“This momentous question,
like a fire bell in the night,
awakened and filled one with terror,
I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
It is hushed indeed for the moment.
but this is a reprieve only,
not a final sentence . . .
we have the wolf by the ears
and we can neither hold him
nor safely let him go.”