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Old 03-31-2005, 10:59 AM   #19 (permalink)
alansmithee
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Originally Posted by Fourtyrulz
The only reason slavery isn't abolished in the Constitution is because the colonies still needed the Southern states for their great natural resources and crops. To abolish slavery at that time would have caused the ratification of the Constitution to become only a dream. Instead, it is a prime example of compromise made by all states in order to hold the Union together.


and, for you alansmithee, Thomas Jefferson's actual words (not your commentary):
My "commentary" is based on Thomas Jefferson's actions, not his words. If I run around saying how bad murder is, wax poetically about the sanctity of life and how evil murder is, and all the while I am a serial killer do my fancy words somehow make my deeds go away? Again, by showing how much Jefferson wrote that slavery was wrong makes it even worse that he kept slaves. You further go to say that the nation's early economy was dependant on slavery. I think that to be largely true. But was Jefferson personally dependant on slavery? Again, as I said before others might not have thought it wrong, but we have numerous examples where Jefferson does say slavery is wrong, yet he held slaves. At best he was a spineless hypocrite, at worst a blatant liar. I don't see how he could be seen any other way (at least on the issue of slavery, he unarguably was a champion of freedom in regards to rich, white, male landowners 21+ in America).
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And more on topic to the original post, I don't see them renaming the school as that shocking, or suprising. Honestly, they'll probably end up naming it the Trotsky School of the Proletariat or the Usama Bin Laden Freedom Fighter Facility, neither would suprise me. Nothing that happens on the left coast suprises me anymore.

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