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The following essay by Shelby Steele: White Guilt and the Western Past

To be honest, Rush Limbaugh spent a good portion of his program Tuesday reading and talking about this essay. It is a marvelous piece of work and needs to be read and understood by all. The picture it paints of our country is a poor one. A picture of a country so weighed down by it's past sins and regrets that it can't do the right thing. If any of us we knew an individual who lived with such regrets we would encourage them to look at their life as a whole and judge it in it's entirety.

The amazing thing about our system and our Consititution is that during slavery we were violating our own laws. The injustice of slavery, on a national level was never codefied into our system. It had to occur outside of it. We as an American society had to strive to meet our own system's ideals. That was the true magic of the Founding Fathers. They created, not a system for their age, but one for an age to come. Despite their virtues and wisdom they could not meet the higher ideals of their own system, that was a quest for later generations. So never sit by while the ignorant and misguided label them as hypocrites. The Founding Fathers, warts and all, were visonaries. They were creating a system of government for another time. And 230 years later we are still living under that frame work.

Long live the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and long live America.

Ickybod