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It justifies independence from Britain so that European colonists can practice genocide on the Native population in North America. The 56 white men who signed the Declaration set what became the United States of America on a course that can only be called evil. Ours is a racist Constitution. Despite its soaring language, it was founded on slavery and a commitment to racial inequality. This vision is etched in the constitutional text, from the notorious Three-Fifths Clause to the equally repugnant Fugitive Slave Clause. And despite the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments, the Constitution retains these vestiges of slavery in its fabric. After Welcome to the July 2021 edition of Liberty Matters. This month we convene a panel of distinguished scholars to ask, "Who was Thomas Jefferson, and how did his views--particularly those on race, slavery, and freedom--inform his writings, including the Declaration of Independence?" NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with historian Donald Grinde Jr., a member of the Yamassee Nation and University of Buffalo professor, about the racist passage the Declaration of Independence cont. Despite Jefferson’s lofty claim in the second paragraph of the ultimately adopted version of the July 4th, 1776 Declaration of Independence that “All men are created equal,” there were more NPR's Noel King talks to historian David Blight, who puts the Declaration of Independence into historical context. He reminds us what was going on in this country when the document was drafted. Mark Charles, a speaker at last weekend’s Justice Conference, called the Declaration of Independence “systemically racist.” (The Justice Conference describes itself as an event “for Christ-followers to gather, engage with, and better understand how to address major justice issues.”) This prompted a reply from the Institute on Religion and Democracy’s Mark Tooley, who chastised The document also includes a racist slur against Indigenous Americans. Author David Treuer, who is Ojibwe, says there is a lot of diversity of opinion and thought among Native Americans — a community of more than 5 million people — about the document’s words. pic.twitter.com/K64UXhMKDA The answer should probably be: Not very. As a declaration of national independence from Britain, the document was obviously not concerned with the liberty and independence of all people (or peoples) of European descent that tend to be lumped together under the category of whiteness in today's "new histories." Facebook's algorithms have ruled that parts of the US Declaration of Independence are hate speech and removed excerpts of them posted to the platform. The Declaration of Independence is a document that is widely regarded as the foundational text of American democracy. The well known line from near the beginning of this document is, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." Yet despite its overwhelmingly positive impact on history, the Declaration of Independence was also a product of its time — and bears some of the shortcomings of its era, including sexism, racism and prejudice against Native Americans. Conservatives blasted National Public Radio over the weekend for describing the Declaration of Independence as flawed and containing racist language. “245 years ago today, leaders We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Patriot leaders found one thing that white colonists shared: racism. The founders embraced and mobilized colonial prejudices about potentially dangerous African Americans and used those fears to 301 Moved Permanently301 Moved Permanently cloudflare By Matthew Rozsa — We can embrace the underlying spirit of the Declaration of Independence but also learn from its shortcomings. NPR’s “All Things Considered” interviewed Donald Grinde about a racist passage in the Declaration of Independence. Fourth of July’s ugly truth exposed: The Declaration of Independence is sexist, racist, prejudiced How we can embrace the underlying spirit of the Declaration of Independence — and also learn As we approach this Fourth of July, we're going to look specifically at one passage in the declaration called Grievance 27. It includes an offensive racial slur to describe Native Americans,
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