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RBJ,
I know Anita well enough to know she is not a racist. Nor did I see in her
post anything that approached a "racist" statement. She made statements of
generally accepted truths.
One point that Anita made that is not always well explained, was her comment
about his behavior in regard to the Native Americans. In a historical source
regarding other colonies, it was noted that both George Washington, Thomas
Jeffferson, Ben Franklin, and other founding fathers invested in land
development schemes that were intended to deprive the Native Americans of
their lands before they chose to sell them and move. By buying shares in
companies that held the "rights" to the land that was still in use by the
Natives, these Founding Fathers intended to make money after squatters moved
onto those lands and destroyed them for use by the Native Americans, which
then led to the land being purchases because there were already settlers on
the land.
I think when we put historical figures on a pedestal and try to use our
estimations of their morality or lack of it, we do them a disservice. The
Founding Fathers were human beings. They did some great things in their
lives, but all that they did was not great!
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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http://www.erols.com/apembert
http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
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