" Consider the proof that progressives typically give to prove Thomas Jefferson’s racism. Here is the smoking gun from Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia: “I advance it therefore as a suspicion only that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstance, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of body and mind.”22 "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left