Please don't be too hard on my good friend Donal T. who couldn't or wouldn't utter the words white supremacy, neo-Nazi, or KKK. Not even radical domestic terrorism. After all, he has a lot in common with our revered Founding Fathers. By the way, Donal, you can choose from only one of the four names if you can't bring yourself to say all four at the same time.
There is good historical precedent for NOT doing so. George Jefferson, Thomas Washington and John Madison displayed the same lack of moral courage. In their famous Declaration of Hypocrisy, they couldn't or wouldn't utter the words:
colonial tyranny,
colonial slave trade,
colonial slavery.
After all, all of them, D.T., G. J., T.W., and J.M., were only deists, not theists so you can't expect a deists to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Had they been Judeo-Christian theists, they would have courageously and honestly said:
colonial tyranny,
northern slave trade.
PS
Did you know that Washington married well? Exceedingly well! Rumor has it that he owned only 123 slaves while Martha brought 153 dower slaves into the marriage. During their wedding ceremony, as Martha marched down the aisle, her retinue of 153 slaves followed her. I certainly hope that no rebellious slave disrupted this prestigious colonial wedding of two wealthy colonialists; when the two became one, they created a multi-billionaire couple. How impressive!
I guess the moral of this story is: you can't trust a filthy rich, slaveholder to 'do right.'
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