TIme to call BS on all the critics of our Founding Fathers
It's time to call BS on all the people applying 2020 principles and beliefs to the people of the American colonies in 1776. Our Founding Fathers were a product of their time and slavery was reality at that time. They were faced with a need to get something done and the only way to do that was to compromise. What they ended up with - the Constitution - was an extraordinary document and created a country and principles that have not been surpassed in the last 250 years. Think about it - did slavery start when the American Revolution ended or when the Constitution was signed? No. It was brought to the Colonies by the Europeans and, don't forget, Africans contributed to the slave trade. The opening of the book Roots by Alex Haley shows his earliest forefather being sold by African blacks to European whites. In the 1700s, slavery existed everywhere and was accepted by people of every color. And, guess what, it still exists today across the ...