Intentions considering though that mostly your founding fathers (we the people) were white land and slave owners are suspect :)
Your words say... intentions are suspect... as white...
But, that's the in vogue racism of the left, generally, today... to discredit others ideas by being racist... as the left find that a more fertile field to plow than... actually contesting the ideas they'd prefer to dismiss without having to have people notice what it means they're actually saying.
As far as "land and slave owners"... it still requires more effort than you apply... to understand WHY... given they had no NEED to do so... they would offer up as "fundamental" an idea that could serve them no purpose ? And, of course, it ignores the reality that there was a war fought to resolve those differences... with both sides being white ?
How does "white land and slave owners"... differentiate Americans... from all others around the world... on any basis other than "white" ?
The racial attachment to slavery is also, historically, a canard... an artifact. As Roman's had (Roman) slaves... Greeks had (Greek) slaves... and Africans had (African) slaves... and Arabs... were slave traders who bought slaves where they could... and sold them where they could... The history of the world is a history that includes slavery... the winners in warring tribes making slaves of losers... until... Britain, the U.S. and most others in the west ended it (mostly, "sort of," or "technically") in the 1800's... even if not principally out of the (always extant) morality concern in the debate having one side winning the argument... but, far more, out of the changing reality in the economics of it proving increasingly noncompetitive in an age of innovation and powered machines. I'll let you argue with Wikipedia about the history of institutional slavery in China lasting to 1949... but, The Forgotten History of African Slavery in China makes the point, clearly enough, of the intentional myopia of the left in blaming "the west"... even while extending that purposeful blindness into the present, to advocate FOR racism, and against awareness that the problem persists:
Slavery will never be history as long as we turn a blind eye to China
U.N. Report Highlights Widespread Modern Slavery in China
So, go ahead and explain how yours is NOT racist... and how your use of that statement did NOT intend to discard the idea... ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL... not because of its lack of validity... but because of historical fraud and faulty logic discrediting its origin?
The "bait and switch" between "don't trust them" (for whatever false "reason" applied) and "that's a bad idea" is the self justification of racism... and turning a blind eye to modern slavery... which the left FAVOR...
Oddly, they're never overt in describing what they mean and intend instead of "all men are created equal" ?
If those who came up with that idea were hypocrites, only... that's still only reason to affirm the idea, and discard only their hypocrisy ?
But, it is actually their hypocrisy that the left now decry, on one hand, and adopt... on the other.
Why else are "they" suspect ? It isn't even only about "hypocrisy" as some would wrongly style it today, as both sides were pretty clear in their statements of belief on the subject ? They didn't grumble, grouse, carp and fuss their way into a war ?
The abolitionists, however, WON the argument, in the west... which "win" the left now seek to UNDO by attempting to rehabilitate the "fundamental morality" of racism... and slavery ?
Leftist lunatics, today, want to pretend that slavery was invented in the U.S... when, at the time of the founding, it was "the global standard"... as had been true for thousands of years...
So, the actually relevant question that's NOT asked is... where did that change from "all of prior human history" come from?
It's a core issue in "no difference between communists, capitalists, and kings... other than who gets to be king"... because it is exactly the origin in their still common, still shared error... and, they each still have no real objection to some people owning others... only quibble over "who should be the owner" ?
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