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Cultural Purging
Flopping Aces ^ | 07-24-15 | Wordsmith

Posted on 07/24/2015 3:49:51 PM PDT by Starman417

Jefferson-statue_1590

Please stop:

The Connecticut Democratic Party quietly voted Wednesday night to remove references to iconic former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from the name of its annual fundraising dinner due to their links to slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans.

"Let's work together to show the rest of the state exactly what it means to be a Connecticut Democrat,'’ said freshman party Chairman Nick Balletto, according to the Hartford Courant, before introducing the resolution to rename the Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Dinner.

The resolution was unanimously approved. This is beyond misguided! It's the kind of liberal-think that makes me want to find the nearest brick wall. The stupid! It hurts!

Connecticut Democrats said Jefferson’s ownership of slaves and Jackson’s role in the Trail of Tears — the forced relocation of Native Americans — played a principal role in their decision to vote in favor of the name change.

The local chapter of the NAACP applauded lawmakers "in making the symbolic first step and striving to right the wrongs of the past."

"You can’t change history, but you don’t have to honor it,” Balletto is quoted as saying.

Is there anything positive that Thomas Jefferson did in contributing to the formation of our national character and identity? Anything at all?! Or is the summation of his identity and legacy, "he owned slaves"?

A few years ago, I posted quite a number of comments in a debate with GaffaUK. I mostly cited from Thomas Sowell's chapter on slavery in his book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals. It's a great read.

Excerpt from my comments:

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: jefferson; naacp; racism; slavery
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1 posted on 07/24/2015 3:49:51 PM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417

They’re going to try to wipe out the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial.

They’re going to try to airbrush our entire history so they can seize control of the future. In fact they’re already doing it.


2 posted on 07/24/2015 3:51:47 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Starman417
The first thing communists have consistently done as soon as they can is wipe out the history of the land they acquire, and change the names of streets, parks, buildings etc.

Our's are no different.

3 posted on 07/24/2015 3:52:09 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Starman417

“Let’s work together to show the rest of the state exactly what it means to be a Connecticut Democrat,’’

They did.


4 posted on 07/24/2015 3:52:36 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Starman417

San Antonio removed several Civil War plaques from City Hall without even a vote.


5 posted on 07/24/2015 3:53:15 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Steely Tom
Today's Democrat party is an islamist/communist hybrid.

It has not the slightest thing to do with freedom and liberty anymore.

6 posted on 07/24/2015 3:53:48 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Starman417

Jefferson was one of our greatest founding fathers. A man who may not have entirely believed in God but knew that by insisting that God gave us rights, he prevented man from taking rights from us. In other words, a man who might have been able to hold two opposing thoughts at one time. A genius who we ignore and defame and erase at our peril.


7 posted on 07/24/2015 4:06:15 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: GeronL

There needs to be a federal or state laws that protects American historical monuments. America’s history belongs to the whole country. Congress better start on it very soon.


8 posted on 07/24/2015 4:10:13 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: miss marmelstein

You know how that actor, who’s name escapes me now, was recently embarrassed to learn that a great great grandfather owned slaves. Professor Henry Gates discovered this on his genealogy television program. Well, let’s start looking up the genealogy of some of these liberal politicians and see how many of them had slave owners in their ancestry.


9 posted on 07/24/2015 4:16:35 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: skeeter

DISIS


10 posted on 07/24/2015 4:19:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: cradle of freedom

I think that actor may have been Ben Affleck, but I may be wrong.


11 posted on 07/24/2015 4:19:41 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Starman417
How about looking up the slave history of Connecticut? The actual slave traders came from New England. I would love to see the history of the New England merchants who actually went to Africa to purchase the slaves and bring them across the ocean.
12 posted on 07/24/2015 4:20:55 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Starman417

The Unanimous Declaration of the
Thirteen United States of America
In Congress, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
WE, THEREFORE, the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

[Signed by] JOHN HANCOCK [President]
New Hampshire
JOSIAH BARTLETT,
WM. WHIPPLE,
MATTHEW THORNTON.

Massachusetts Bay
SAML. ADAMS,
JOHN ADAMS,
ROBT. TREAT PAINE,
ELBRIDGE GERRY

Rhode Island
STEP. HOPKINS,
WILLIAM ELLERY.

Connecticut
ROGER SHERMAN,
SAM’EL HUNTINGTON,
WM. WILLIAMS,
OLIVER WOLCOTT.

New York
WM. FLOYD,
PHIL. LIVINGSTON,
FRANS. LEWIS,
LEWIS MORRIS.

New Jersey
RICHD. STOCKTON,
JNO. WITHERSPOON,
FRAS. HOPKINSON,
JOHN HART,
ABRA. CLARK.

Pennsylvania
ROBT. MORRIS
BENJAMIN RUSH,
BENJA. FRANKLIN,
JOHN MORTON,
GEO. CLYMER,
JAS. SMITH,
GEO. TAYLOR,
JAMES WILSON,
GEO. ROSS.

Delaware
CAESAR RODNEY,
GEO. READ,
THO. M’KEAN.

Maryland
SAMUEL CHASE,
WM. PACA,
THOS. STONE,
CHARLES CARROLL
of Carrollton.

Virginia
GEORGE WYTHE,
RICHARD HENRY LEE,
TH. JEFFERSON,
BENJA. HARRISON,
THS. NELSON, JR.,
FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE,
CARTER BRAXTON.

North Carolina
WM. HOOPER,
JOSEPH HEWES,
JOHN PENN.

South Carolina
EDWARD RUTLEDGE,
THOS. HAYWARD, JUNR.,
THOMAS LYNCH, JUNR.,
ARTHUR MIDDLETON.

Georgia
BUTTON GWINNETT,
LYMAN HALL,
GEO. WALTON.


13 posted on 07/24/2015 4:22:25 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: cradle of freedom

We should suggest that the name Fulbright be taken off the well-known grant program. He was a leader of the southern segregationist Democrats.


14 posted on 07/24/2015 4:23:00 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: miss marmelstein

a man who might have been able to hold two opposing thoughts at one time. ==

This is interesting.

bo is able to speak two apposing (and appeasing) thoughts in the same sentence. Devil is trying to copy?


15 posted on 07/24/2015 4:39:15 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: skeeter

wipe out the history of the land ==

Rome ‘disappeared’ the Jews in 73 BC


16 posted on 07/24/2015 4:43:54 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: cradle of freedom

Great idea! Btw, that actor was Ben Affleck.


17 posted on 07/24/2015 4:44:25 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: mumblypeg

Thanks.


18 posted on 07/24/2015 5:00:06 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: oblomov

Good idea. Bring it to their door and they will shut up.


19 posted on 07/24/2015 5:02:03 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: miss marmelstein

Nonsense! Who told you Jefferson ‘might not have ‘entirely’ believed in God’? Absurd assertion on the face of it!


20 posted on 07/24/2015 5:04:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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