“Every time I have to hear yet another paean to the Founding Fathers, or see George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as graven images on Mount Rushmore, I think of the blood, backs, and bones of those enslaved black people they built their wealth on—some of whom were my ancestors—and I want to puke. I’ve grown weary of hearing Jefferson lauded for hypocritically stating that ‘all men are created equal’ out of one side of his mouth, while buying, owning, selling humans, and siring children on his wife’s enslaved half-sister … ” — Denise Oliver Valez in Daily Kos (click here
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Photo: Denise Oliver Valez, activist and feminist, wasn’t impressed by Thomas Jefferson’s half-assed championing of equality.