Panther pislA wrote:
The founding fathers are still heroes.
They did what they had to do to build a society from scratch.
If you scrutinize and take anyone's life out of context you can make them out to be a bad person.
With hindsight, it may sound cold to say, but the fact is, in that day, slavery was like the iphone - it was just a quick way to get things done. Oppression was part of the times. Shit, people legally dueled to the death out on the streets for simple matters of humiliation. These days, that is not the case, so why do we spend time comparing past actions to modern day standards? Why aren't we up Italian peoples' butts for all the people the Roman Empire enslaved, oppressed, and crucified, etc.? Because we understand that they rocked sandals 24/7 back then. That's why.
Its all part of the agenda - i.e. make them pay instead of making myself better, which takes hard work. It is a lament, and lamenting is for lazy losers.
Winners get up, dust themselves off, and move on.
Just be a good person who works hard, and don't worry what's going on in the next guy's cubicle - or hundreds of years ago.
Nobody's coming to bring things back to that era, but if that era didn't happen, none of us would be here enjoying our iphones!
Too bad you are factually wrong in many respects. Hamilton was part of the leadership of an anti-slavery group in N.Y.. Adams was anti-slavery. Slavery was a moral issue raised during the Constitutional Convention, thus the decision on fractional calculations for census purposes and the agreement to kick the can down the road for 20 years in the Constitution itself. Ben Franklin pulled strings to have an anti-slavery bill presented in the 1st Congress, but Madison had it buried in committee. Washington's correspondence reveals he knew slavery was wrong, but he, for financial reasons, did not free his slaves until after his death. Thomas Jefferson was hounded on the issue in private correspondence and he knew slavery was going to have to end. For the sake of keeping the country together, they agreed to kick the can down the road for others to resolve as it was a devisive issue even then.