It was a fucking lie when it was written, having not included slaves or women.
Jefferson was an abolitionist when speaking hypothetically and invented the dumb-waiter so that his abolitionist friends didn’t have to observe the slaves that made their food when Jefferson had them over for dinner.
So when we create the new society, we need to assure – with ironclad language – that everyone has rights and is equal under law, down to the most heinous wrongdoer, the most crippled disabled person and the most squallid transient.
Let’s build a society where the poorest person lives pretty well, and has full access to their rights.
(It might also help if the richest person is limited in their wealth, say only a thousand times the worth of the poorest.)
invented the dumb-waiter so that his abolitionist friends didn’t have to observe the slaves
The amount of physical and linguistic inventions that go back to slavery is astounding. The other day I learned that the ice cream truck jingle comes from the song “N**** Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!”. When you start looking our racist history is everywhere.
It was a fucking lie when it was written, having not included slaves or women.
Jefferson was an abolitionist when speaking hypothetically and invented the dumb-waiter so that his abolitionist friends didn’t have to observe the slaves that made their food when Jefferson had them over for dinner.
So when we create the new society, we need to assure – with ironclad language – that everyone has rights and is equal under law, down to the most heinous wrongdoer, the most crippled disabled person and the most squallid transient.
Let’s build a society where the poorest person lives pretty well, and has full access to their rights.
(It might also help if the richest person is limited in their wealth, say only a thousand times the worth of the poorest.)
It’ll take some work and deliberation.
The amount of physical and linguistic inventions that go back to slavery is astounding. The other day I learned that the ice cream truck jingle comes from the song “N**** Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!”. When you start looking our racist history is everywhere.