>> guest: well, dinesh d'souza is, i think, one of our outstanding young writers.his book "the end of racism," i thought, was fabulous, really did a terrific job of laying out the whole problem of race in america today in a dispassionate way, but at the same time, in a way that suggests that our approach to the problem deserves some fundamental rethinking. so--and i know him; i've met him before, and i think we have a mutual respect for each other's work. c-span: chapter on slavery--what's the premise? >> guest: the premise is that the founders really did believe that all human beings of all races are created equal, that they're endowed by god with equal rights, and that the government's job is to respect that. that's the premise. now the question then becomes: well, how in the world can we justify jefferson and washington and madison owning slaves in the face of this? how do we make sense out of this? so i tried to do that. i tried to show that the--first of all, that the founders really did say that blacks were created equal to whites. there's a quote on--i think