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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s to know?

He’s a dead, white, male, cisgender, slave-owner.  Full stop.[/quote]

So tired of people elevating these historical figures and not speaking the truth of who they were outloud.[/quote]

I mean the “full stop” is silly.
Your descriptors make him sound like  my Uncle Ted (if he had owned slaves). My Uncle Ted is pretty unremarkable, and Thomas Jefferson contributed 100x more to our great nation than anything my Uncke Ted ever did. 
Just—-the full stop omits essentially everything about Thomas Jefferson that explains WHY we even know who he is, much less why we celebrate him! (Hint: it’s not for his whiteness or cis-ness or his death or his maleness. Nor is it for the fact that he owned slaves. It’s for his visionary brilliance and commitment to the ideals of what a nation could be if people began to claim their rights were bestowed on them by their creator rather than through edict from a benevolent king or queen. This was literally a revolutionary concept of its time. And this is why we celebrate him.)[/quote]

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