Shaun KingVerified account

Thomas Jefferson, for decades, forced dozens of enslaved young children to work from sunup to sundown in his nail factory.

probably a bit better than racists and slaveholders' moralities

Slavery was legal but it was far from acceptable. There's a reason most Northern states moved to abolish it after the American Revolution.

anyone defending slavery in any way isn't really worth responding to

Jefferson wrote in his notes on the State of Virginia that free black people could not co-exist with white society. Doubt I'll ever top that

This is the reason the US will never seriously confront racism -- its dominant white pop is too beholden to its creation myths that it ...1/

2/can't take rational & justified criticism of founders we've stupidly deified instead of seeing them as complex, & often compromised beings

P.S. I'm white, southern, +50, & a veteran. But unlike far too many of my peers, I'm not emotional fragile nor threatened dying whiteness 3/

4/ because despite my acknowledged privilege, I don't definitely my worth or future by my race. If times breeds out "white," it does matter.

So basically a rich white CEO + Sexual Assault.

But much worse.

Not to defend Jefferson's actions, but most of us knowingly contribute to monstrous acts, albeit more indirectly. Think of the metals in

You really tried to compare the guilt of our carbon footprints to that of owning human beings and abusing them? Wow white apologists

Yeah our "founding fathers" didn't have great morals. They were actually criminals who knew how to con people...just like..OH MY GOD