Conversations with my babies: Answering the Homeschoolers Thomas Jefferson (Part 2)
March 31, 2024
Dear Ms. Lunelle,
Today I would receive a call from my baby girl from the Tennessee Home School Class as to when I was going to published part 2 of my Open Report with her inquiry of Thomas Jefferson and his declaration of all men being equal?
I told her and her peers that in my opinion the biggest misconception that folks have in the 21st century, her included, is that they want to equate owning slaves as the determining factor as to the character of a man. Big Mistake
Conforming to social expectation of law is a contributing factor that should not be over looked...(See the Bible Leviticus 25: 44(NLT), Exodus 21: 2-6(NLT), Luke 12: 47-48(NLT), Ephesians 6:5 (NLT)).
Sometimes real good men are constrained by following bad laws, but it does not change who they are. The whole world was complicit in the institution of slavery. Free men of color owned slaves America, it was legal, plain and simple.
Members of the Philadelphia Congress, instructed by their respective Colonies, gradually edged towards a clear break from the British. On June 7, 1776 Henry Lee of Virginia moved that these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be free and independent States. After considerable debate, the Motion was adopted nearly a month later on July 2, 1776.
The passing of Lee's resolution was the formal Declaration of Independence by the American Colonies, and technically that was all that was needed to cut the British tie. Thomas Jefferson was appointed to prepare an appropriate statement. The Declaration of Independence was formally approved by the Congress on July 4, 1776. Jefferson's pronouncement gave his appeal universality by invoking the Natural Rights of human kind- not just British Rights.
Jefferson argued that the King had flouted these Rights, imposing taxes without consent, dispensing with trial by Jury, abolishing valued laws, establishing a Military dictatorship, cutting off trade, burning towns, hiring mercenaries, and inciting hostilities among the Indians. Jefferson's defiant Declaration of Independence had a universal Impact unmatched by any other American document. Yes, he owned many slaves, and his affirmation that all men are created equal was to haunt him and his fellow citizens for generations.
The bottom line is that the African people could not have survived what Lincoln left behind for them with his “Root Hog or Die” policy ("You're On Your Own") if it had not been for the Christian charity of the Southern White man who prevented his extinction. If Black folks would face the real truth in this matter, they would get down on their knees and thank God for him every day and never buy into the lies of the damn Yankee propaganda!
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence became the highway that Black folks would eventually find that all of God's children in the United States of America were indeed created equal! God bless you!
Your brother,
HK
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