A few years ago, while covering a story on Republican New Hampshire legislator Werner Horn, I summoned the best and brightest scholars that America had to offer. Horn, who represents his 95.9 percent white hometown in his state’s House of Representatives, confounded people who actually know things by stating that owning slaves doesn’t make you racist. During an interview with The Root, Horn doubled down by insisting that the Founding Fathers were not racist.
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