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BranchCovidian 2 points ago +2 / -0

Other great quotes show that Thomas Jefferson was very pro-White and would be outraged at the anti-White racism we see today.

First, Jefferson openly praised the physical traits of Whites. He wrote of their “flowing hair” and their “more elegant symmetry of form,” but emphasized the importance of color itself:

Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one [whites], preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immovable veil of black, which covers all the emotions of the other race?

TJ did not think Blacks were equal to Whites, noting that “in general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection.” He hoped slavery would be abolished some day, but stipulated that:

“when freed, he [the Negro] is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture.”

Jefferson also expected whites eventually to displace all of the Indians of the New World. The United States, he wrote, was to be

“the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled,”

and the hemisphere was to be entirely European:

“...nor can we contemplate with satisfaction either blot or mixture [intermarriage] on that surface.”