It is very interesting to see how the narrative regarding Jefferson changed. When I was in grade school, in the 60s, Thomas Jefferson was revered as a patriot, inventor and statesmen. When my daughter was in grade school in the early 2000s, he was shown to be a slaveholder who raped his slave, Sally, who she learned was a teenager at the time, and that he wasn't such a great guy to put it in a nutshell. I remember she came home from school one day in the 5th grade and told me that Thomas Jefferson was a creep. We were living in a predominantly, if not overwhelmingly, white neighborhood. Good for the Unitarian Church!
It is very interesting to see how the narrative regarding Jefferson changed. When I was in grade school, in the 60s, Thomas Jefferson was revered as a patriot, inventor and statesmen. When my daughter was in grade school in the early 2000s, he was shown to be a slaveholder who raped his slave, Sally, who she learned was a teenager at the time, and that he wasn't such a great guy to put it in a nutshell. I remember she came home from school one day in the 5th grade and told me that Thomas Jefferson was a creep. We were living in a predominantly, if not overwhelmingly, white neighborhood. Good for the Unitarian Church!
Good news, good decision.
The recognition of conflicting realities is a good start.
He is and always has been problematic. He did not believe that anyone other than white people mattered. The Declaration does not exclude anyone.
Such subtleties can only add to the effect of the >3.5% of the population that turned out for No Kings protests.