screenshot because @conor64 has me blocked, but this is the whole ballgame. the enslavement of blacks is central to america's founding, just like the desire to get out of british oppression. but stories about the former make guys like conor feel bad so he wants u to stop. 
conservatives dont want history. they want fairy tales. they want stories about the founders always doing what is right and ignoring all the people they owned. they want an easy kindergarten narrative instead of the reality of liberty but also thousands of enslaved humans.
the founders set up a legendary framework of liberty. they also owned a ton of human beings who did much of the actual work of building this country. for eons we taught history with the former and pretended away the latter. now that the descendants are speaking up its a problem.
think about how many times you've heard about washington freeing his slaves, then think about the fact they werent free until he had died and wrung every last nanosecond of labor out of them. thats the fairytale bullshit we tell ourselves as americans.
even if you buy the self-serving narrative that washington had "reservations" about slavery it doesnt change the reality that he had the bad feels while his enslaved blacks were cooking his food, tilling his fields, changing his shoes. like... it all happened. its fact.
and with washington it matters. because washington is the father of america and the most enduring symbol of america in one human being. and he OWNED A TON OF PEOPLE and that is a core part of him as much as resigning his commission and being first POTUS.
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