The "Founders," including my ancestor William Blount, are not people to look up to.

I know I have been guilty of it in the past, but I just want to remind people the "Founding Fathers" were not people to look up to. Some of their rhetoric is actually pretty pretty, but they talked a lot. That is not what they stood for.

The "Founding Fathers" were classist, genocidal, misogynistic, slave owners who put in the constitution that black people were only 3/5th human, didn't mention people of the first nations or Asians at all, and didn't look at women or poor people as citizens or allow them the right to vote.

And a note for the people who are going to try and peg this is a hateful speech were I am jealous or trying to misrepresent them, I want to note my ancestors were some of them. One of my ancestors was William Blount, who signed the constitution for North Carolina. He wanted the US to take over Florida, and so he was kicked out of the Senate (he was to imperialistic for the US Government haha). So then, George Washington appointed him as Governor of the Ohio-Kentucky territory (so he could imperialize the First Nations in the Midwest instead). So this is constructive criticism about US History and to my own family. Criticism for the people I am the seeds of. I hope I am allowed to have constructive criticism for my own blood.

The "Founding Fathers" are not people we should try and emulate. Raping and slaughtering Native Peoples, raping and enslaving black people, raping and completely dis-empowering women, complete disregard for all the poor so that way they could just use them as labor to better their own empires of wealth.  I mean, let's be honest. Who thinks Thomas Jefferson had a beautiful love affair with one of the people he had enslaved at his Monticello Estate? Or did he rape, thus impregnating, Sally Hemings, the name of that enslaved women.

That is what 'Murica was really built upon. Learn your history and just please try and keep that in mind.

My family (including William Blount and our kin) and my families close friends (including William's close friends Washington and Jefferson) helped built this system, and did so down south. I want to take it down and build a new one, while basing my organizing work in the south.

I am a product of the system, but I was born to destroy it. And together we can do so.