Reply #149: and people need to be reminded that everyone is/was human. [View All]

[dysfunctional press]

there are no actual gods or even demi-gods in our entire history.
some people want to hold the founders in a special kind of reverence, as if they were.
they weren't, and they shouldn't be treated as if they were.

some of them may have been fairly progressive for their time- but others obviously weren't.
if you weren't white and male- you weren't seen as fully deserving of human rights...my heroes...:eyes: