Lacks a little nuance to put it gently. we do know that there was debate among the founding fathers about slavery. some opposed slavery outright, others were indifferent. what happened as a result of the debate wasn t resolution, but as you mentioned at the top of the piece was compromise. the 3/5 compromise and also the fugitive slave clause, which allowed slave owners to retrieve their escaped property. what i think she would have been better equipped to do is appeal to a different tradition, a tradition of americans who sought to correct the contradictions around our democratic prince peoples evident in our practice. that is the abolitionist movement in the 1830s. she should have invoked frederick douglass, sojourner
Fugitive slave clause, which allowed slave owners to retrieve their escaped property. what i think she would have been better equipped to do is appeal to a different tradition, a tradition of americans who sought to correct the contradictions around our democratic prince peoples evident in our practice. that is the ap listist movement in the 1830s, frederick douglass, those who laid down their lives in interesting sorts of ways. i have a strange suspicion that michele bachmann would label them unamerican or terrorists. does this matter? commends like this, does it mat summer. it s a good news/bad news thing. there are some in her party who will appreciate this. maybe she can win the republican nomination. bad news,probably can t win, who s smarter than a fifth grader.
That may explain her comments, she never responded. we re joined by susan molinari, paul begala and eddie glaude, jr. from princeton university. professor, what do you make of her comments. is this a whitewashing of history? in part i think it is. what it suggests is that she lacks a little nuance to put it gently. we do know that there was debate among the founding fathers about slavery. some opposed slavery outright, others were indifferent. what happened as a result of the debate wasn t resolution, but as you mentioned at the top of the piece was compromise. the 3/5 compromise and also the fugitive slave clause, which allowed slave owners to retrieve their escaped property. what i think she would have been better equipped to do is appeal