Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (227721)	11/12/2007 7:59:03 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793914

You don't have to smear someone who really was a slave owner. Personally, I find it humanizes Jefferson in a perverse way.

To: LindyBill who wrote (227721)	11/12/2007 4:56:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793914

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.