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You know, I'll grant you that. I'll grant that my negative views of Jefferson on this matter meant I didn't nod at the rather obvious fact that there's going to be animosity. I do, however, disagree with the idea that white and black people in America can't live side-by-side, which was...

Yeah, I read the quote. I already knew of it. It's part and parcel of Jefferson's refusal to face the problems of slavery in his later career (aided undoubtedly by the vicious response his proxy got in trying to begin gradual abolition in the 1780s) and I view it in that context, I don't see...

Lincoln at least revised his views after meeting with black leaders. Even considering Jefferson's concerns, this wasn't reparations, it was "okay, we're done with you, GTFO". Nor was Jefferson an indisputable authority on the issue (honestly, he was kind of a coward when it came to slavery's...

Uh, what? The Colonization Society was a half-assed attempt to send freed slaves "back to Africa" (A continent very few of them had any experience or knowledge of) due to racism. Calling it reparations for slavery is either gross ignorance or a particularly sick joke.

Heh, it is something to think about. How many of us would truly, with all our hearts, agree to give up everything we have to spare the life of a stranger? Because the gist I got from that remark is that the speaker is rhetorically asking why people are more upset about the rioting and...

Apparently he wouldn't be the only cop disgusted with how Floyd was killed.