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: found this on www.laststory.com : : “Liberals, Slavery, and our Founding Fathers" : If you’ve spent any degree of time in the company of a white-male-bashing, holier-than-thou liberal literati—and God knows there’s no shortage of these leftwing sh*t-stains—you’ve undoubtedly heard Captain Sensitivity talking smack about the Founding Fathers of the United States of America… that is, when he’s not putting ‘peace signs’ on the back of his Volvo van or munching on some pesticide-free Granola bars. His usual gripe falls along the lines of, “Sure, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington wrote ‘All men are created equal’ but they somehow overlooked blacks, Indians, women, slaves, Hispanics, and non-landowners. What a bunch of arrogant hypocrites! Our Founding Fathers were nothing more than a group of wealthy white slave owners—who wanted to be free!” And lately, these ex-hippie pseudo-intellectuals are speaking louder and bolder than ever before. : The opinion of Last Story? These revisionist ers are out of their tie-dyed-colored minds. : Folks, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington were genius revolutionaries of the highest possible order who transformed the very fabric of the world—and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. These Founding Fathers were exceptional intellectuals, brilliant scholars, and American patriots who drafted the master plan for the world’s first democracy since Ancient Greece—and Professor Tolerance wants to bust their balls over slavery? Listen, societal evolution develops slowly. It doesn’t happen overnight. And you gotta keep in mind that American luminaries such as Washington and Adams were only born about 250 years after Columbus proved the world wasn’t flat. : Condemning our Founding Fathers over slavery is akin to chastising Jonas Salk for not also curing cancer—or blaming Neil Armstrong for not also walking on Mars. : And let’s face facts—the American public simply wasn’t ready for anything more drastic. I mean, imagine if old Ben Franklin hobbled before his fellow patriots, stood before the podium, and bellowed: “Well, okey dokey, boys… Right after we overthrow the English crown, defeat the most powerful nation on earth—despite not having a real military of our own, risk our lives in battle and potentially HANG for treason… and right after we establish the modern world’s first representative democracy—complete with an elected president with limited, enumerated powers—and right after we become the ONLY nation in history to guarantee its people the inalienable right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, freedom of religion, jury trials, freedom of expression, a free press, the right to bare arms, and protection from unreasonable searches and seizures… let’s free all the slaves! In fact, let’s make it legal for N*gger Joe out in the cotton field to own weapons and marry our daughters! Are you with me?” : For Christ’s sake, old Ben Franklin would’ve gotten laughed off the stage and sent to a nut house. The American people themselves—not just the Founding Fathers—weren’t ready for anything that sweeping. The bottom line is, our Founding Fathers did an amazing at pushing the envelope as far as they did—don’t condemn them for failing to also establish harmony among all the races. : Look around, guys. We were still barring marriages and actively practicing government-sanctioned segregation in the 1960s—nearly 200 years after the American Revolution began. So cut Jefferson, Madison, and Washington some slack, will ya? Racism isn’t an easy problem to solve… and I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but it’s still a major problem in the world today. Remember, our revolutionaries lived in a time when doctors used leaches and dentists distributed wooden dentures. During the 1700s, the only forms of government on the face of the planet were monarchies, dictatorships, theocracies, and nomadic tribal rule. It was in this cultural backdrop that these “wealthy white land owners” risked their wealth, lives, and land, exhibited amazing courage and tenacity, demonstrating an unheard of faith in their fellow man. They voluntarily forfeited power upon winning the Revolutionary War because of their ideals, namely the divine right of man to live free from the sles of government tyranny. No, they didn’t create a Utopia, but they came closer than anyone before them and designed the blueprint that inspired everyone that came after them—and they should have their collective es kissed for doing so. No one at Last Story is saying that the institution of slavery was a good thing; obviously, it was an evil of ungodly proportions. But the ideals behind the American Revolution—along with the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—were the greatest quantum leap in societal evolution since the advent of The Holy Scriptures. And that’s not hyperbole, boys and girls. The ripple effects of the Revolutionary War still reverberate around the farthest reaches of the globe. : Any of these elitist liberals who systematically attack our Founding Fathers for being “ethnocentric” or lacking sufficient “enlightenment” is a pretentious who missed the f*cking point.

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