1/ When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 41 of the 56 signers were slaveowners. The principles of the Declaration were not descriptions of what we yet embodied, but a statement of the ideals every generation should further. youtube.com/0LyzI81HDdw via @YouTube

Marianne Williamson - July 4th, 2020

Let's have a mindful rather than a mindless holiday this year...

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2/ Every generation lives out the American struggle: On one hand we’re based on the most aspirational and enlightened principles ever to inform the founding of a nation & on the other hand we’ve been at times the most violent perpetrators of transgression against those principles
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3/ Few generations have had so much to think about on July 4. Who will we, in our time, decide to be?
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The American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery & permit colonists to have their own guns to kill indians rather than pay taxes for the British to do it. The South rose up years later in resistance to the double cross of slavery's abolition. What we celebrate is a fiction.
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Replying to @thekenshain
No, what you just said is a fiction.

Jul 4, 2020 · 9:21 AM UTC

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This is not MY idea. Patriotic American historians say the British outlawed slavery as a strategy against the insurgent colonists; critical historians w/no national attachments say that it was the precipative policy change that ignited the revolution. 1/2
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Brett Chapman @brettachapman
4 Jul 2020
“Merciless Indian Savages” is not the most damning indictment of the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence. It’s where they whine about King George protecting Native American land from their greed by cutting off settlement. This is why most “savages” allied with him