Narrator:" He didn't even get a ' Bless your heart'"
Narrator:" He didn't even get a ' Bless your heart'"
He knew this. He's a history major with years of education. This is taught in grade school/is apparent to anyone with a slight interest in the development of the constitution or the writing of our founding documents.Admit ignorance, learn and move on. How he didnt seem to know is not suprising. Most Americans probably think the Founders wanted all people vote when in fact they only allowed wealthy land holding white men.
* Pete walks into a barbershop*Pete.
Just stop talking about black issues.
Pete, what are you doing?
Pete, do not go on The Root.
PETE!!!!!!
About to spit out my mac n cheese. 😂* Pete walks into a barbershop*
Pete:" You know who the top 5 Rappers of all time are...."
While on music duty at the cookout Pete switches out Lemonade for a Lynard Skynard greatest hits cd.
It's from 2014. He was 32 and the mayor of South Bend at the time.Is this new? This looks like an older video. He looks younger.
Yeah, Pete has finally made it to my shitlist. Originally, I thought of him as an intelligent, but not exciting candidate. Now I think of him as mostly stupid, corrupt, and not at all a good representation of the generations he claims to speak for.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole. Jefferson still had slaves up to the day he died in 1826. (Which he then freed upon his will.) Crazy.
I think if there is ever a documentary on his campaign, we will find out dude started getting high off his own supply. He was approached by people that saw he was getting buzzed and got him hyped up and Pete started feeling himselfWell that's just factually wrong.
For a smart guy Mayor Pete says a lot of dumb things.
No he didn't. He freed 5 of them. And then had one their families split up and sold.
He sold nearly all his slaves before he died because he was in huge debt due his lifestyle and constant construction of his home.
Washington was the one who freed his slaves after he died, or rather after his wife died. He also made provisions to have the informed and elderly among them to be cared for by the estate.
The critical turning point in Jefferson's thinking may well have come in 1792. As Jefferson was counting up the agricultural profits and losses of his plantation in a letter to President Washington that year, it occurred to him that there was a phenomenon he had perceived at Monticello but never actually measured. He proceeded to calculate it in a barely legible, scribbled note in the middle of a page, enclosed in brackets. What Jefferson set out clearly for the first time was that he was making a 4 percent profit every year on the birth of black children. The enslaved were yielding him a bonanza, a perpetual human dividend at compound interest. Jefferson wrote, "I allow nothing for losses by death, but, on the contrary, shall presently take credit four per cent. per annum, for their increase over and above keeping up their own numbers." His plantation was producing inexhaustible human assets. The percentage was predictable.
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."
The irony is that Jefferson sent his 4 percent formula to George Washington, who freed his slaves, precisely because slavery had made human beings into money, like "Cattle in the market," and this disgusted him. Yet Jefferson was right, prescient, about the investment value of slaves. A startling statistic emerged in the 1970s, when economists taking a hardheaded look at slavery found that on the eve of the Civil War, enslaved black people, in the aggregate, formed the second most valuable capital asset in the United States. David Brion Davis sums up their findings: "In 1860, the value of Southern slaves was about three times the amount invested in manufacturing or railroads nationwide." The only asset more valuable than the black people was the land itself. The formula Jefferson had stumbled upon became the engine not only of Monticello but of the entire slaveholding South and the Northern industries, shippers, banks, insurers and investors who weighed risk against returns and bet on slavery. The words Jefferson used—"their increase"—became magic words.
Jefferson's 4 percent theorem threatens the comforting notion that he had no real awareness of what he was doing, that he was "stuck" with or "trapped" in slavery, an obsolete, unprofitable, burdensome legacy. The date of Jefferson's calculation aligns with the waning of his emancipationist fervor. Jefferson began to back away from antislavery just around the time he computed the silent profit of the "peculiar institution."
And this world was crueler than we have been led to believe. A letter has recently come to light describing how Monticello's young black boys, "the small ones," age 10, 11 or 12, were whipped to get them to work in Jefferson's nail factory, whose profits paid the mansion's grocery bills. This passage about children being lashed had been suppressed—deliberately deleted from the published record in the 1953 edition of Jefferson's Farm Book, containing 500 pages of plantation papers. That edition of the Farm Book still serves as a standard reference for research into the way Monticello worked.
In the 1790s, as Jefferson was mortgaging his slaves to build Monticello, George Washington was trying to scrape together financing for an emancipation at Mount Vernon, which he finally ordered in his will. He proved that emancipation was not only possible, but practical, and he overturned all the Jeffersonian rationalizations. Jefferson insisted that a multiracial society with free black people was impossible, but Washington did not think so. Never did Washington suggest that blacks were inferior or that they should be exiled.
It is curious that we accept Jefferson as the moral standard of the founders' era, not Washington. Perhaps it is because the Father of his Country left a somewhat troubling legacy: His emancipation of his slaves stands as not a tribute but a rebuke to his era, and to the prevaricators and profiteers of the future, and declares that if you claim to have principles, you must live by them.
After Jefferson's death in 1826, the families of Jefferson's most devoted servants were split apart. Onto the auction block went Caroline Hughes, the 9-year-old daughter of Jefferson's gardener Wormley Hughes. One family was divided up among eight different buyers, another family among seven buyers.
100%.I think if there is ever a documentary on his campaign, we will find out dude started getting high off his own supply. He was approached by people that saw he was getting buzzed and got him hyped up and Pete started feeling himself
George Washington is genuinely one of the most incredible figures in world history. He had a ton of faults, but no one else could have done what he did, with the integrity he did it with.Aye. And for anyone interested, here's a Smithsonian article about Jefferson, Washington, and their differences on slavery throughout the years (and each's evolution and devolution):
Yeah, Tommy here was not ignorant about what slavery was. Dude just wanted to make quick coin and to rape to his heart's content. Even George Washington, fellow slaver, saw him as a little bit extreme at that time. And I'd like to think that 1770s Thomas Jefferson would look at 1800 Thomas Jefferson as a bit of a monster.
Washington had slaves.Geez, even Washington knew it was wrong, Lafeyette had a whole thing with him trying to free his slaves without bankrupting himself.
Also, the founders were famous for deep debates. You think the "con" side of the 3/5ths comprompise people didn't get their point across? I'm sure as hell they did.
Why not just explain to me?
He did, he inherited them, and he evolved his opinions on it over time, freed the slaves he owned, provided for their welfare, and spoke about the essential moral bankruptcy of the institution.
This man has no black support, no interest in getting black support, yet I'm told constantly he's a Serious Threat™ in the primaries.
He did, he inherited them, and he evolved his opinions on it over time, freed the slaves he owned, provided for their welfare, and spoke about the essential moral bankruptcy of the institution.
The ability to admit you were wrong and then work to improve the situation as best you can is a sign of strong character.
Lafayette is also an incredible historical figure.And we can thank Lafayette for it, mostly. He debated Washington into coming around on it.
He did, he inherited them, and he evolved his opinions on it over time, freed the slaves he owned, provided for their welfare, and spoke about the essential moral bankruptcy of the institution.
The ability to admit you were wrong and then work to improve the situation as best you can is a sign of strong character.
Not sure what the bolded means, but he did die pretty suddenly. Who knows what else he would have done if that had not been the case.
He could have done more, could have recognized the error of his entire being, sold off his portions of the estate, and use the funds to free all his slaves and those of his wife's family. He did try to sell some land, but failed to get buyers, and failed to convince his wife's heirs to free their slaves. But he did more than the rest of the founding fathers so.
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He could have done more, could have recognized the error of his entire being, sold off his portions of the estate, and use the funds to free all his slaves and those of his wife's family. He did try to sell some land, but failed to get buyers, and failed to convince his wife's heirs to free their slaves. But he did more than the rest of the founding fathers so.
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he's not smart. he's ambitious, amoral, and credentialed, which is what america likes to present as smart.Well that's just factually wrong.
For a smart guy Mayor Pete says a lot of dumb things.
That is a really bad way of saying the constitution was written by many people who did not value the lives of black people
Not sure what the bolded means, but he did die pretty suddenly. Who knows what else he would have done if that had not been the case.
He did a lot, and considering the environment he grew up and lived in, that deserves to be recognized.