"The improvement of the blacks in body and mind, in the first instance of their mixture with the whites, has been observed by every one, and proves that their inferiority is not effect merely of their condition of life."

'Thomas Jefferson'

Jefferson, Thomas. "Notes on the State of Virginia." The Portable Thomas Jefferson. Ed. Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Penguin, 1975. 188

Anyone who will argue that a race is inferior to another, based on the observation of that race's people in enslavement, stripped of their natural language, is ignorant at best.

I'm not trying to ruin the TJ lovefest, I'm just pointing out the fact that we as Americans tend to romanticize historical figures as long as any bad they've done wasn't to us or ours.

Fortunately for you in regards to TJ, that's true.

Romanticize away!