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General Topics => Political Discussion => Topic started by: macsak on July 04, 2019, 09:43:43 PM
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https://www.salon.com/2019/07/04/fourth-of-julys-ugly-truth-exposed-the-declaration-of-independence-is-sexist-racist-and-prejudice/
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https://www.salon.com/2019/07/04/fourth-of-julys-ugly-truth-exposed-the-declaration-of-independence-is-sexist-racist-and-prejudice/
From the author:
Is any of this intended to suggest that we should not take pride in the Declaration of Independence?
Not even remotely: It was — and continues to be — one of the most eloquent and morally moving
political documents ever penned.
The writer has an MA and PhD in History. Even so, he made one main, valid point that I could tell. That being the drafters of the Declaration were fallible. They were not perfect.
But he didn't go far enough. They were also humble, wise and forward-thinking. They KNEW they were fallible and could never foresee every possible situation the nation might face. So, they not only declared our independence, but they also penned the Constitution, which allows for it ti be CHANGED when necessary. It takes a major amount of effort and a decisive majority to do so, ensuring the changes are well debated and hopefully rare.
As a literary and journalistic work, this really misses the mark. His premise is that the DOCUMENT is racist, sexist and prejudiced. That's false on its face. The fact that every civil rights movement relied on the phrase "all men are created equal" to legitimize them proves that out.
He then spends the bulk of his lecture explaining how it was the writers of the document, not the document itself, that were racist, etc.
The only "Fourth of July's ugly truth exposed" is that Liberals will continue to use our celebrations of this country's founders and events as attention devices for their own anti-America narratives.
I bet the author has a collection of Che t-shirts and doesn't care that his Socialist hero was a bit more flawed than our founders.