Are you arguing the point? Or are you mocking somebody for having an opinion you also have?
monstro:
I say being a slave back in those times and having kids born into slavery pretty much disqualifies you as “white”, in a political sense.
Yes, Jefferson was a fuck-up. A fuck-up with some good ideas, but still someone you wouldn’t want to hang around with if you were a negro. His “Notes on Virginia” is pretty clear evidence of this. He couldn’t even give Benjamin Banneker or Phyllis Wheatley any props. Even if they were hacks, but he could have at least conceded that there might be exceptions to his “blacks are souless animals” theory. I mean, if a cow presented me with a working clock that she’d built with her own hooves, I’m hoping I would stop eating steak and hamburgers. Or at least publish an addendum to my paper entitled “Cows are Inferior Animals so Let’s Eat Them!”
Agreed but it’s nonsensical and should be mocked accordingly along with its adherents. That being said, Jefferson was in fairness a giant of a man. He was more than just someone with some good ideas. He was an architect of one of the most successful civilizations in human history.