Elvis Dingeldein writes for Bob Cesca's Goddamn Awesome Blog and posted this really disturbing story about Jefferson. Now, I'm not surprised - I'm aware of Jefferson's contradictoryness. Just disturbed. disturbed at how someone can write some of the greatest statements of human freedom and natural rights ever... and give away human beings. How someone can be anti-slavery enough to want to condemn it in the Declaration (but the southern states would never sign on, so it was dumped) and yet gift one to the INCOMING PRESIDENT. I don't get it.
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(Elvis Dingeldein)
Yesterday in The Histories™, 19 April 1809, former president and swimsuit model Thomas “I Like My Coffee Black, Like My Ironies; Also My Slave Mistresses” Jefferson made a handy Inauguration Gift of an indentured African servant named John Freeman* to newly presidentified pal James Madison.
Because The Ironies seemed to have been entirely lost on Jefferson, his note made no mention that on this same day in The Histories™, 19 April 1775, the American Revolution began in Lexington (See: Concord), Massachusetts, with The Shot Heard ‘Round The World But Really Only Felt By That One Redcoat With The Lead Ball In His Eyesocket. So yeah, that was a pretty good day to celebrate the 34th anniversary of a War For The Independencies by having a fire sale on fungible brown people with other members of the Plantation-Owning Secret Handshake Whitey Society.
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