Gordon Hurst Las Vegas
June 23, 2026 - 9:01 pm
Barack Obama said during the dedication of his statesmanlike halfway successful Chicago: “In forming our union, the founders fell terribly abbreviated of the Declaration’s promise, leaving slavery intact.”
If our nationalist acquisition strategy and the immense bulk of our media were honorable astir history, our governmental scenery would beryllium overmuch amended today. Slavery has existed arsenic acold backmost arsenic past knows. Our founders did not take slavery. They were calved into that world. They could not extremity slavery and astatine the aforesaid clip signifier a unified conjugation to assertion independency from England. They did nevertheless authorities successful the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” (They provided the model for slavery to end.)
The Democratic Party, dissimilar the Founding Fathers, supported slavery and did not privation it to end. No 1 is liable for the behaviour of past generations. It should not beryllium truthful hard for the Democratic Party, nationalist acquisition and the media to beryllium honorable astir our history.
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