Congressman Mfume says early American history of twisted proposition of inequality

Maryland Congressman Kweisi Mfume says at an outdoor press conference with House Democrats to introduce the Black History was American History Act that members are called to be mindful of the fact that even before the republic was born, it compromised the moral principles and the moral claims articulated in the Declaration of Independence, everything that the Founding Fathers claimed then, in the name of morality but contradicted in their attitudes towards and in their treatment of the descendants of Africa and the native inhabitants of the land, the enslavement of the Negro, the extermination of the Hispanic and the wiping out of Native Americans made the birth of the American nation, an iniquitous conception, conceived in hypocrisy, and dedicated to the twisted proposition that white men were superior to non white men, and therefore entitled to enslave them, oppress them, and if necessary, destroy them.