Louisiana rep causes outrage by implying Declaration of Independence is racist:

[Ptarmigan]

Louisiana rep causes outrage by implying Declaration of Independence is racist: Politician says students shouldn't recite it as it was conceived in time of slavery
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3614267/Louisiana-bill-requiring-students-recite-passage-Declaration-Independence-shelved-slavery-prevalent-written.html

A Louisiana lawmaker argued against a bill requiring public school students to recite excerpts from the Declaration of Independence because 'only Caucasians were free' at the time it was penned.

While the Declaration of Independence states 'all men are created equal', it took nearly a century later before the 15th amendment allowed men regardless of 'race, color, or previous condition of servitude' to vote.

Barbara Norton said it was 'unfair' to require children to recite the founding document, given it was written when slavery was still widespread.

Declaration of Independence is racist??????????????????

What next? The Constitution is racist???????????????????????

 

[thundley4]

Stupid scrunt. That phrase was also used to great effect in the Abolitionist Movement.