Typically they dodge that by saying they invented such an enlightened system of government that it caused their own mistakes to eventually be abolished, thereby crediting the founding fathers indirectly with every improvement that has ever occurred in this country's awful history, as well as implying that them owning slaves was some sort of honest mistake that they would have change their mind about eventually.
I think most people realize that they were racists.
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Typically they dodge that by saying they invented such an enlightened system of government that it caused their own mistakes to eventually be abolished, thereby crediting the founding fathers indirectly with every improvement that has ever occurred in this country's awful history, as well as implying that them owning slaves was some sort of honest mistake that they would have change their mind about eventually.
"But it was a different time"