The position as an at-large delegate for the Florida Republican Party will be the highest-profile political role thus far for Barron, former President Donald Trump’s youngest son.
It will soon be Barron Trump’s time to step into the political spotlight.
Trump, former President Donald Trump’s youngest child, who will graduate from high school next week and has largely been kept out of the political spotlight, was picked by the Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday night as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of delegates obtained by NBC News.
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In a family full of politically involved children, Barron Trump, who turned 18 in March, has retained much more of a private life than his older brothers, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., both of whom will also be Florida at-large RNC delegates, along with Trump’s daughter Tiffany.
We can understand Jefferson in his time and place by seeing that he was upholding and benefiting from the institution of slavery. Just because you personally haven’t heard of antislavery activism in the 1700s, doesn’t mean those ideas weren’t around. He chose not to take them up. Since when have antiracist activists been enabled to become presidents?? He was prominent because he was racist. You are being revisionist if you think that Jefferson was some hero. I assume you would also excuse horrible takes in politicians today.
I mean, all the things you’ve said are true, except that I excuse horrible takes from other politicians today. I never said he was a hero. Or that he wasnt racist. Or that he was even a good person. Antislavery ideas were around, but they weren’t mainstream viable political stances until later, which is probably one of the reasons, you can imagine, Jefferson didn’t push them during his career.
My whole original point isn’t that Jefferson isn’t racist, or that he isn’t a rapist, it’s that he had conflicted feelings, according to his letters, about slavery. Evidently, not enough to stop him from owning slaves, which does in fact make him both racist and a hypocrite. But to assert that he was completely fine with slavery just isn’t true.
If he was not doing anything to stop slavery from happening, and he had as much power as he did, he was fine with slavery.
“I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state [South Carolina] for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it for ever. This abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it.”
to Edward Rutledge, July 14,1787
Idk what else to say.
Privately supporting antislavery doesn’t do shit, you have to use your voice and power.
That is absolutely right