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by cookie_monsta 2168 days ago
That's your conception of your country? I'm sorry to have to break this to you, but they're all dead now. All of the slave owners and all of the slaves are dead. Their children are dead. Their children's children are dead. It has been seven generations.

Or are we cherrypicking the past for things that mean something today as well?
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AnthonyMouse 2168 days ago
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson is dead. Independence is not.

If you want to take down a statue of a Jefferson, go take down a statue of Jefferson Davis. If you can find one.

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cookie_monsta 2167 days ago
> Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson is dead. Independence is not.

So, even though his children are dead and their children are dead, it's almost as if what he did in his life had ramifications through the ages and still shapes society today. I'd never considered that possibility. I wonder if there are other situations where that applies?

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AnthonyMouse 2167 days ago
The obvious difference being that "all men are created equal" is something we should want to preserve whereas slavery is something we should want to destroy forever.
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