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No, they were middle-aged men wearing powdered wigs, elaborately embroidered hostess jackets, silk hose, and shoes with enormous buckles and substantial heels. In other words, our Constitution was written and signed by drag queens.

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The founders were racist, sexist, colonialist, slave owners who raped their slaves & sold their own children into slavery. I don’t give a sh!t what the founders thought. We do not have to care what they meant. We work to make this society reflect OUR true values…no theirs.

Both were also signed exclusively by slave-owners or people for whom putting up with slave-owners wasn't a deal-breaker, telling us that the country was founded on, by, and for white supremacists and rich white men. We need to stop worshipping terrible people who accidentally did a few things right.

It's obvious in retrospect : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all homy palone are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of fantabulosa!"

Given the Gjones's avatar - and who they want to platform... I also didn't notice any white women. What's their fucking point? Like when they talk about founders being Christian. Did you read what Jefferson had to say?

Our founding fathers were human and flawed. Washington, Franklyn and others speculated on land west of the Appalachian Mountains, where land was set aside for indigenous tribes by the British. They got rich off of it.

Jefferson collected dinosaur fossils himself and funded fossil research by western explorers. He was fascinated by evidence of prehistoric life, though notions of 'dinosaurs' were still very hazy.

And that is why years later it needs to be properly interpreted because men wrote it and women weren’t involved in the process

Out of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence 41 owned slaves. Nine years later, 25 of the 55 delegates who ratified the constitution owned slaves so about the same percentage as republicans in the U.S. electorate today.

It was a club. Prominent wealthy and powerful. Making the rules, signing the document and sending it off to each state so some local club of guys just like them would ratify it. Granted it was a good start but it was incomplete and unfinished and much less than fair. It was/is an unfair compromise

Ah, les boucles de soie et les talons ornés… Les virilités d’hier font souvent sourire aujourd’hui. Messieurs, la dignité ne tient pas à l’allure mais à la parole tenue. Les vrais hommes n’ont jamais craint le ridicule, seulement la lâcheté.

I also didn't notice People of Color, either. Keep in mind that the way things were set up, having to be a landowner of paid taxes, about 4% of the population of the US at that time could vote at all. And we aren't going to mention 3/5th of a person, at least not for now.

There were no women signing it at all. Women didn't have a lot of rights unti very recent history. And now we've lost one of them. There are some on the right who would have us lose them all. Dumb cunt.

Most of them were also slave owners. One of them for sure “Jefferson” was an adulterer, fornicating his slaves, many of whom were Muslims when they were kidnapped and brought to this country and forced to change their religion.

I notice that nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution can you find the words "Christianity", Christian", "Bible" or "Jesus".

However, at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and for some decades after, many of the individual states adopted Constitutions which limited the franchise to practising adherents of Protestant Christianity.

Reference to "creator" is generically spiritual. It applies equally to all religions, not just Christianity. And of course that was the Founders' intent... for freedom of religion (and from religion) to apply equally to all religions, not just Christianity. Hence no mention of Christianity or Bible.

trump and the current crop of republicans want to make sure women, muslims and pretty much everyone else other than white Christian males that are landowners are the only one that get to vote.

I didn't notice any women at all being involved in the signing of the Constitution. By her logic she is excluded from it's protections, including the 1st. So she has no right to say this.

This is such an amazing response. I was struggling to get up and going this morning. This response did the trick!

Blue haired women would have locked that constitution down to the point no man could abuse it. Maybe let women run the country for 250 years for comparison reasons.

And, gjones, are you remembering the Indigenous Peoples who taught the English about this land and its foliage, edible and not. Who showed them where safe water was and where food animals grazed? That the settlers stole land from the Native Americans? Made treaties with them that they didn’t honor?

I didn't notice any blue haired women and Muslims storming the Capital, stealing government property, beating police, hunting members of Congress, chanting to hang the VP, or crapping on the walls... Oh, I am sorry. Did this 'gjones' bitch have a point?

What is the point of her post? Only people who look like the "founding fathers" can support the constitution, or benefit from it? Despite the Bill of Rights and later amendments? This is absurd.

What was the point of her statement to begin with, there were no dinosaurs running around outside either. I was a stupid comment to begin with. It was the current group of the population, those who had stolen the land from the indigenous Indians at the time, so what? Just confused

Also no women, no people with skin darker than lily white, no people of the Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist faiths, or, or, or... It's tough for some people to grasp but the country has changed since 1789 and the Constitution is meant to cover more than just white, fancy-dressing, landowning males.

They hate that last part. Maga is the backlash for the black President. KKK after the Civil War. Jim Crow laws, the Southern Strategy, segregation after the Civil Rights Act. Every step forward in civil rights they fight back.

What an incredibly stupid person this is. I'd feel sorry for her, but she's chosen stupidity in a world where educating herself is literally available on the same tool she used to post her idiotic opinion.

There were no IRISH PEOPLE THEIR EITHER HON! SO WHATS YOUR POINT? You can self deport if you wish? Because there were no Italians there!! But Italian men think they are with the Republican Party! They don’t know!! Soon as they’re done with brown people their next! Been hearing it for 60 years!

When they say white replacement! Do you think Italians are looked at as White? Not by them!! Name all the Italians Running Nations government? Not local! NATIONAL ? I’ll wait? There are a lot of Young Republicans especially in Florida are buying Sheets in bulk!!! 😂😂😂😂

Lots of women didn't live long enough to have "blue hair" back then. They were busy dying having babies, dressing uncomfortably and doing literally everything else to keep men alive and in clean stockings

I do sometimes think that a lot of problems men have now is because they stopped wearing powdered wigs, embroidered jackets and diamanté shoes. They need glamour and colour and it was taken from them

Can we also restate for the ignorant that Muslims were fighting for this country at its founding!?? African Muslims fought with colonists during the Revolution. Muslim names appear on the military muster rolls, including Bampett Muhamed, Yusuf ben Ali, and Joseph Saba, Peter Salem, and Salem Poor.