In the film they describe how a concept of freedom and the notion that "all men are created equal" is a moral contradiction in colonial America and how did the concept or creation of race help resolve that . One of the main contributors to the development of race was Thomas Jefferson, who was on the 2006 Nickel and the Two Dollar Bill. In the film, they describe how some argue that Thomas Jefferson was the first person to put actually into words a theory of race in America. It was by doing so that he could write in the declaration of independence all created equal. Thomas Jefferson owned upwards of 250 slaves while writing that all men are equal. To justify this hypocrisy they had to how to instill the ideas of liberty, freedom, democracy while