These Founders believed it was consistent with their “Christian” faith to own other humans, rape them (and if they became pregnant, thereby add to their property), sell their children, mutilate them if they tried to escape. Do we imagine our nation has outlived this Sin?
Adam Clark @admclark
4 Jul 2020
Every “Founder” with a red dot over their face “owned” enslaved Africans. That’s over 75% of them. That’s why Frederick Douglass in 1852 raised the question “ Whose #IndependenceDay are you celebrating?” In Rochester, New York. #FourthofJuly #July4th #happy244th

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Trump believes that to point this out, or to take down Confederate statues or change the names of military bases that celebrate those who fought to extend these crimes is to cancel or deny our “history” and “heritage.” Whose history? Whose heritage?
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Credit to @arlenparsa for his red dot research.
Arlen Parsa @arlenparsa
1 Sep 2019
This is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Declaration of Independence. I decided to put red dots on all the men who held slaves. Next time someone puts them on a pedestal and says we can't question their judgement on guns or whatever, show them this image.
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Thanks to @arlenparsa.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
We got it. Now ready repentance reparations firm purpose of amendment and reconciliation. Black and Brown and Asian can show us if we are lost.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
I am writing this still in bed, so bear with me, please. We should not sugar coat the faults and failings of the Founders. Still, they created something powerful. Has not yet reach full potential of the words, of the full meaning. Work in progress, never give up, strife on!
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
thanks for this. makes its point in a striking way.