The Declaration of Independence (as read by Max McLean)
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Is the Declaration of Independence Racist?
From The WallBuiders... On July 4, 1776 a group of Americans approved a document declaring the United States of America free from English rule. This document was the Declaration of Independence, the nation's birth certificate. The Declaration is currently being attacked as a racist document. Is this true? Thomas Jefferson, the author of this document, l aid out the reasons the American colonies were declaring themselves independent. One of the grievances he included in his original draft of the Declaration said: He [King George III] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere....Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable c...