December 10, 2012 Obama and SlaveryBy Daren Jonescu Thomas
Jefferson owned about six hundred slaves over the course of his
life. That is to say, he was involved in denying individual
sovereignty to six hundred people. Barack Obama, by comparison,
wishes to deny individual sovereignty to over three hundred
million people. And yet according to the left, Jefferson should
be dismissed as a hypocrite, and one of the noblest documents
ever written reduced to the status of mere "politics," whereas
Obama, who seeks to destroy that document, ought to be seen as a
champion of equality and fairness. If you are inclined to
incredulity at the notion of comparing Obama's policy agenda to
slave ownership, then you may wish to excuse yourself from the
rest of this discussion, as the comparison only gets worse for
Obama. What, at its base, is slavery? Slavery, we would casually
answer, is the ownership of one man by another. That is to say,
it is a perversion of the notion of private property, rooted in
a fundamental illogic