re: #65 palomino

Read Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia. Hard to believe a brilliant man like Jefferson wrote essays in which he denigrated blacks as less physically attractive, less intelligent and more prone to perspiration and body odor (gee, what slave activities might have caused that?)

Founding fathers were great men, but still flawed. The TP mythologizing is a dead end.

Thomas Jefferson was a great man, but he had major flaws. And that how he should be studied: As he really was, not as a marble myth.