
On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)
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Ibram Kendy and the Declaration of Independence
People tend to look at jefferson as a key founding father and looking at his sort of character and ethical failings. And people treat it like maybe the declaration of independence an are founding documents, and thus our country really rises above his wild beliefs. But i don't see it that way, right? I see it like, i you look at what ibram kendy is arguing as,. The declaration of independence wasn't really about ideas of universal freedom. It was about the people who signed the document getting, you know, becoming free of intervention and control of of the british crown. So they wanted to be free to do basically more of what they were doing, whih
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