They just can’t quit picking at the scab
I came across this on Glenn Beck’s website. It seems that the left is always picking at the scab of “race.” They just can’t leave it alone. The video below was part of a Smithsonian exhibit on race.
I watched and listened to this in total disbelief. Thomas Jefferson was described simply as a “slave holder.” Is that the totality of Thomas Jefferson, a slave holder?
He was delegate to the Continental Congress, the writer of the Declaration of Independence, a governor of Virginia, ambassador to France and Secretary of State under President George Washington. In addition to these achievements, Thomas Jefferson was elected the third President of the United States, serving two terms. He directed the Louisiana Purchase, purchase of much of the land west of the Mississippi from France in 1803. He sent Meriwether Lewis and Thomas Clark on their famous expedition to explore the Western United States in 1804-1806.
That is a pretty impressive resume. Certainly Thomas Jefferson was more than just a slave holder.
Pretty revolting, isn’t it? Our tax dollars at work.
I read recently that race as most people think of it is almost entirely wrong: there’s more genetic difference in general, between two white Europeans, say, than between the European and a Korean. There’s no such thing as race in any biological sense. Another source said the only people who think there really is no such thing as race are white folks.
But if the science says “we’re all one family”, why does the government insist on asking for our race on every form? Eric Holder’s “we’re a nation of cowards” about race comes to mind. Holder, and the other race-baiters want to be offended.