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jalbert
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Wedge,
You are entitled to your opinion and perhaps I was a little harsh with my language but I still do not believe we owe Jefferson anything.
It is not the Founding Fathers nor any of documents they concieved that make the existence of this country possible. It is the people of this country that make it's existence possible. ALL the people. And the enslaving of any of them is the most severe and damaging sin one can commit against the union.
I also do not think we should applaud him for leaving out exclusionary language from the Declaration of Independence at a time when he should have been fighting for the rights of all americans. Whatever their race or economic standing.
And the Louisiana purchase might have been good for the colonists but it was a certain, eventual death sentence for the hundreds of thousands(if not more) who already inhabited that land. Maybe the French would have done the same anyway. But they didn't, we did.
Perhaps he accomplished as much as he could without upsetting his position in society and government. But then he should be seen as such. Not as a man who took every risk and opportunity set before him in the cause of humanitarianism.
You are entitled to your opinion and perhaps I was a little harsh with my language but I still do not believe we owe Jefferson anything.
It is not the Founding Fathers nor any of documents they concieved that make the existence of this country possible. It is the people of this country that make it's existence possible. ALL the people. And the enslaving of any of them is the most severe and damaging sin one can commit against the union.
I also do not think we should applaud him for leaving out exclusionary language from the Declaration of Independence at a time when he should have been fighting for the rights of all americans. Whatever their race or economic standing.
And the Louisiana purchase might have been good for the colonists but it was a certain, eventual death sentence for the hundreds of thousands(if not more) who already inhabited that land. Maybe the French would have done the same anyway. But they didn't, we did.
Perhaps he accomplished as much as he could without upsetting his position in society and government. But then he should be seen as such. Not as a man who took every risk and opportunity set before him in the cause of humanitarianism.
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