First Walmart, then Amazon....now Apple

Flyn

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How long will it be before the PC people pull down the Jefferson Memorial and take his picture off the $2 bill and the nickels? Jefferson was a big slaver, you know. I had to search a little to find some accurate info on his slave owning habits. The thought police are already writing histories that downplay his slave owning and make him seem like a benevolent owner who was trying to free his slaves. That's not true for the most part but people in the future will believe it if they keep changing the history books.

In another communication from the early 1790s, Jefferson takes the 4 percent formula further and quite bluntly advances the notion that slavery presented an investment strategy for the future. He writes that an acquaintance who had suffered financial reverses “should have been invested in negroes.” He advises that if the friend’s family had any cash left, “every farthing of it [should be] laid out in land and negroes, which besides a present support bring a silent profit of from 5. to 10. per cent in this country by the increase in their value.


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