[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "Uh, the Founding Fathers were - your words - 'a bunch of slave owners.' "

But no major Founder, and very few if any lesser lights, claimed slavery a positive virtue.

jeffersondem: "Yes, George Washington owned slaves.
That was not a disqualifier, then or now, preventing him from being honored as Father of Our Country.
But if you think it is, say so."

Washington can speak for himself:

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."

"Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle."

[jeffersondem]

“I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.”

So Washington and I do agree.

I did not agree with another poster who made a derogatory reference to “a bunch of slave owners.”

I thought that disrespectful of Washington and other founding fathers. Yes, George Washington owned slaves at the time of his death.

But at least the other poster did not call any of the founders “yapping dogs.”

[OIFVeteran]

Do you have a source for that quote?