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Many of the Founding Fathers were slaveowners. Their racism would most certainly have treated white-skinned European-descended Hamilton differently than a dark-skinned descendant of African parents, even if both were born in the Caribbean.

We have plenty of echoes of this today, like the birthers doubting Obama's citizenship. We all know why he was singled out for that one.

I'm not sure how an understanding of their racist beliefs translates into an endorsement to you.


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Help me understand how you get from "the Founding Fathers held racist beliefs" to "those beliefs were good and I support them"?

1770s America saw Hamilton as European-American, not Caribbean-American. They'd have cared most about his skin color and lineage, not the physical location of the birth.




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