Mayor Pete claims the Founders of our nation didn't believe slavery was a bad thing??

Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is within a couple of points of being the party's top-polling contender for the nomination.  Liberals and Democrats aren't bothered in the least by the fact that he's openly married to another man, and they're sure other world leaders will be just as hip and trendy if Pete were to become president.

 

But Buttigieg clearly has a different problem:  Last Saturday video surfaced from a 2014 speech he gave in which he said: 

“It’s an embarrassing thing to admit, the people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing.”

In saying this he showed his abject ignorance of the history of America’s founding.  He also showed  the utter failure of the American educational system to teach that history. 

No wonder this nation is crawling with young socialists and America-haters.

Buttigieg reportedly attended Catholic schools, not public schools.  But today both Catholic and public schools teach either nonsense or nothing about the Founders, who when not ignored altogether, are summarized to students as white male slave owners, thus having nothing useful to say about anything.

If Buttigieg had received anything resembling a decent education, he would have learned about a fellow named Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States. Jefferson was a slaveholder, and that is likely to be all that young Mayor Pete was taught about him.  But in reality, as president in 1807 Jefferson promoted the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves, which outlawed the importation of slaves after January 1, 1808. Jefferson hoped that it would lead to the outlawing of slavery altogether, as he stated in his annual message to Congress on December 2, 1806: “I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe.”

Sounds as if Jefferson most assuredly did understand that slavery was a bad thing. 

Another Founder is considered the “Father of the Constitution,” James Madison.  Madison (yes, another slave owner) supported ending the importation of slaves, but was impatient with the delay of getting it going.  In 1788 he wrote that he wished the act would have become effective earlier than 1808.  Again, anti-slavery.

It amazes me that someone with so severely misunderstands the history of this nation can be considered by the Mainstream Media and most Democrats as a serious candidate for the presidency.  But then I recall that Obama once said he'd been to "all but two of the 57 American states."

No one in the Mainstream Media even batted an eye over that.