Are the Founding Fathers Writings on Freedom and Liberty Applicable to Black People?

[trilladelic]

Ain't fa u dog, it's fa dat otha niqqa

Ain't fa u shawty, it's fa dat otha bitch...

 

[The_Jackal]

This, the constitution, star spangled banner, declaration of independence, etc........

All of that shit needs to be scrapped and replaced with something that more accurately describes the various ethnicities that reside in this Country now.

I skipped over this post but through constitution is along with the amendments are honestly great for protecting individual freedom. The fact that the more can be ratified help to allow it to progress with the times and current social issues.

The truth is that it's a multi-faceted answer. It depends strictly on what founding fathers you are referring to. Of the 55 constitutional delegates over 25 of them owned slaves. Then you have people like Thomas Jefferson who in his writings denounces slavery as an unjust evil, yet continue to keep slaves. And you have people in North who fought against slaveyou simply because economical it was in their interest to.

Agreed. You can add John Adams, who apparently never owned slaves but, at one time, was an attorney who successfully defended a slave owner's "right" to take back one of his slaves.

This also. Some men did think slavery was wrong but defended it strictly on the fact that it was law.