Have the courage of your convictions Woodpusher, state your opinion.
You believe Thomas Jefferson was a racist.
Don’t dissemble. Don’t hide behind huge tracts of two pages of this or six paragraphs of that, with nice, distracting HTML colors.
Make a quick, tiny, buttoned up reply that simply contains the five words in your heart.
“Thomas Jefferson was a racist”
Go ahead. Do it. Be honest for a change. Small, short, simple. You do not need any more than five words.
“Thomas Jefferson was a racist”
Your turn.
Thomas Jefferson explicitly wrote that he believed in the superiority of the white race over the black race; and he believed in the separation of the races. If that does not define him as a racist, I do not know what could.
A racist is one who believes in the superiority of one race over another based on inherent physical characteristics. It is not about hating anyone.
Why are you so mentally crippled that you cannot discuss the actual words of Thomas Jefferson?
Thomas Jefferson wrote that he wanted to emancipate and deport black slaves, and to recruit an equal number of foreign white people to replace them. He clearly wrote that blacks were an inherently inferior race. What is your problem in understanding that Thomas Jefferson, like the vast majority of founders, was a racist?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/racism
Racism is the belief that humans can be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races”; that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural and behavioral features; and that some races are innately superior to others.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/racism
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.