Post: What happens when a black man calls out the author of All men are created equal for not meaning black people ? In Seventeen Ninety one, Benjamin Banneker, a self - taught black mathematician, astronomer and inventor, wrote a letter to none other than Thomas Jefferson. He didn't just flatter him, he confronted him. Banneker quoted Jefferson's own words on liberty and asked how he could write about freedom while owning enslaved people. You should be found guilty, Banneker wrote of that most criminal act which you profess deadly detest. Imagine the courage a free black man in the Seventeen hundreds. Putting Jefferson on trial. With his own words, Jefferson replied, but never answered the core question, because the truth. Banneker exposed the hypocrisy of a founding father before most Americans could even read. He didn't just build almanac, KS, he built pressure, and he proved that intellect, not skin, defines a man. Are we all created equal ? Comment below for more. Share, So others know this challenge to the Declaration of Independence. Share, believe inspire blacks be.

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