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Originally Posted by donquixote99
That's pretty much the problem. The difference between Jefferson and 'the Klan' is just gigantic.
When did Jefferson ever call for a program of terrorist murder against anyone who threatened the ascendancy of the white aristocracy?
When did David Duke ever say anything like this?
(Hmmm...perhaps I will change my username....)  |
Like I wouldn't know it was you if you changed your username.
A racist is a racist. On the continuum of racists, I see considerably more commonalities than differences. Jefferson saw black people as less than human. Had he not, he would not have had ownership. Had he not, he would have made sure that his Constitution did not allow for slavery to remain in place in the new union. If his fellow founders objected to that, he would have been free to withdraw his collaboration and support and simply let the other slave owning founders write the Constitution that did not address the issue of slavery, without him. I don't see the "differences" as gigantic at all. Minimal...pretty much.