odd on a sight like this, yours is the only response, albeit affirmative even if in sarcasm.
are the rest embarrassed by Thomas Jefferson?
are they embarrassed by his comments?
we shall learn more soon.
One of my favorite founders.
I have been to the Memorial many times as well as his home, Monticello.
There may be more responses tomorrow. It’s late at night, and I’ve noticed that these boards really slow down late in the evening.
I certainly am not embarrassed by his comments. To the contrary, I am inspired by them.
I don’t subscribe to all this political correctness, that because he owned slaves, because he didn’t have a 21st century liberal politically correct conscience, that he should be disregarded. Based on liberal criteria, to that effect, then we can admire no one from history, because he/she would have had something in their life and times, which liberals today find objectionable.
Probably more than anyone else, Thomas Jefferson was the intellectual force behind the founding of America as a liberal democracy. Compared to his contemporaries as well as all those who came before, he was a tremendous champion of freedom.