John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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that we know in our lifetime we will never achieve.
And then we don't know how to deal with with this national sin.
But what they did know what Jefferson said is we're going to push this to the work of greater men, to the work of future generations.
And so the idea is my theory is what they realize is their job
was to forge a nation.
A solidified
nation that was strong enough
to deal with slavery.
Um, and that that was their work and that that would set the stage for the work of future generations.
That's my read on it and my riddle me this to whoever disagrees with me is if they choose to keep that paragraph in the Declaration of Independence, dealing with slavery, there's no nation.
And if there's no nation, there's nothing consolidated and powerful enough to deal with slavery.
It's this kind of like uh chicken and egg conundrum, but to
Blame them
For the paradigms of the world they grew up in when they're the ones that actually had the boldness to say, I don't think the world should be this way.
Yeah.
And there was never even supposed to be a unifying concept.
There was never supposed to be a gauntlet.
It was just supposed to be this committee that's writing a document for all the reasons that England sucks and we're leaving.
So the the courage of saying we want to summarize this whole idea, bumbling up in the colonies, in one sentence,
that was never on the kind of the like the boxes to check for that committee.
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