Vivek Ramaswamy(@VivekGRamaswamy ):It’s fashionable today to lazily point out that Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder, but very few Americans know that John Adams was an abolitionist who didn’t own slaves, or that his son John Quincy Adams returned to Congress after serving as president to continue the fight against slavery. We’d do well to actually know our history rather than to foolishly criticize it. The conformists who parrot the party lines today are the ones who would’ve followed the pack as proud slaveholders 250 years ago.

2024.01.25 17:39

It’s fashionable today to lazily point out that Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder, but very few Americans know that John Adams was an abolitionist who didn’t own slaves, or that his son John Quincy Adams returned to Congress after serving as president to continue the fight against slavery. We’d do well to actually know our history rather than to foolishly criticize it. The conformists who parrot the party lines today are the ones who would’ve followed the pack as proud slaveholders 250 years ago.