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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (227721)11/12/2007 4:56:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll   of 793887
 
Well of course the Founding Fathers were racists. Everybody was with very few exceptions indeed. They were born into a system of institutionalized racism and slavery, and all had to wrestle with it, especially as a common charge against them, to quote Dr Johnson, was "Why do we hear the loudest cries of 'Liberty!' from the drivers of negroes?"

Since keeping slave mistresses was both common and shameful, Callendar used it as political charge when Jefferson was President. One would hope people could be calmer about it now that it's part of history.
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