Now, if she were speaking, precisely what she could have said is, when our democracy was created, it was imperfect, and we had to travel a journey to move towards greater equality. That statement is unequivocally right. It is true. Yeah, accurate. When our nation was created, African Americans in half the country were slaves. They had no right to vote. Women had no right to vote. On the question of slavery, I've said many times, slavery is the original sin of America. It was a grotesque evil. Uh, I will point out, though, that how did we abolish slavery? (02:02–02:12)
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