Thomas Ricks
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first heard Jul 2026
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Monument stays up.
And I think it's a helpful indicator or tool.
But since we're getting into the ancient world of slavery, I want to mention another issue here that really surprised me is—
The founders stood on ancient slavery as a justification.
Yes.
Yet, ancient slavery generally was very different than modern American race-based slavery.
Foremost, it was not race-based.
Anybody could be a slave.
In fact, the word slave comes from the Slavs, who are clearly, we would call, Caucasian.
And with the exception of a few places like Sparta, slavery tended not to be as harsh as American race-based slavery.
Slaves had some rights, the right to petition the emperor over abuse, and their offspring, if a slave was freed, his offspring could hold public office, which was not the case in America.
And so I think the founders kind of gave themselves a free ride using the justification of slavery in the ancient world while presiding over a much harsher system of slavery.
Yeah, and then they don't allow slavery just to stain the American fabric.
They weave it into the American fabric, in the Constitution, the fundamental law of the land.
They endorse slavery.
And as a result, 250 years later, we are still pulling out these strands.
And people don't recognize that white supremacism was written into the Constitution.
And they avoided the word race.
They, in fact, avoid the word slavery.
But they know what they're talking about when they say,
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