Noam Chomsky on the Roots of American Racism

one of the paragraphs that really struck me was regarding the founding fathers' awareness of the moral reprehensibility of american slavery:

> Some of the slave-owners, like Jefferson, appreciated the moral turpitude on which the economy relied. But he feared the liberation of slaves, who have “ten thousand recollections” of the crimes to which they were subjected. Fears that the victims might rise up and take revenge are deeply rooted in American culture, with reverberations to the present.