This weekend, we celebrate July 4, on which the founders signed The Declaration of Independence and proclaimed as self-evident “that all men are created equal,” despite the fact that they themselves were slaveholders.
As protests underscore the cognitive dissonance between this country’s enlightened founding principles and the fact that “Black Lives Matter” is still a controversial slogan, a certain Talmudic passage resonates in a new way:
“One who is promiscuous under their wedding canopy.”
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