Your founding fathers? Lol!!!! Thomas Jefferson, the religious pessimist --- "Like many other 18th-century intellectuals in Europe and North America, Jefferson believed blacks were inferior to whites. In his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Jefferson expressed racist views of blacks’ abilities, though he questioned wheth…
Your founding fathers? Lol!!!! Thomas Jefferson, the religious pessimist --- "Like many other 18th-century intellectuals in Europe and North America, Jefferson believed blacks were inferior to whites. In his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Jefferson expressed racist views of blacks’ abilities, though he questioned whether the differences he observed were due to inherent inferiority or to decades of degrading enslavement. He also believed that white Americans and enslaved blacks constituted two “separate nations” who could not live together peacefully in the same country. Of this inevitable rift, he wrote:
“Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained ... will divide us into parties and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race.”
Not really sure what your long posts are seeking either to refute or to reinforce. Strongly-held opinions, but I cannot discern where they point. My apologies.
My two points: Glenn has a great deal of courage in a time of conformity and signaling; also, enough with the counter-factual judgments on people who lived hundreds of years ago. These self-flattering narratives of our greater wisdom fall apart when you consider that these historical figures actually staked their lives on their beliefs and most alive today merely serve as hubristic critics.
Long-held opinions/beliefs about white supremacy? Meritorious manumission negroes like the very ignorant and repulsive modern-day bed winch, Candance Owens?
Your founding fathers? Lol!!!! Thomas Jefferson, the religious pessimist --- "Like many other 18th-century intellectuals in Europe and North America, Jefferson believed blacks were inferior to whites. In his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Jefferson expressed racist views of blacks’ abilities, though he questioned whether the differences he observed were due to inherent inferiority or to decades of degrading enslavement. He also believed that white Americans and enslaved blacks constituted two “separate nations” who could not live together peacefully in the same country. Of this inevitable rift, he wrote:
“Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained ... will divide us into parties and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race.”
Not really sure what your long posts are seeking either to refute or to reinforce. Strongly-held opinions, but I cannot discern where they point. My apologies.
My two points: Glenn has a great deal of courage in a time of conformity and signaling; also, enough with the counter-factual judgments on people who lived hundreds of years ago. These self-flattering narratives of our greater wisdom fall apart when you consider that these historical figures actually staked their lives on their beliefs and most alive today merely serve as hubristic critics.
Long-held opinions/beliefs about white supremacy? Meritorious manumission negroes like the very ignorant and repulsive modern-day bed winch, Candance Owens?