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