Posted on 06/24/2015 9:11:16 AM PDT by tcrlaf
I guess this means we must now demolish the Washington Monument, because he was a slave owner, Right? And burn our $20 bills because Andrew Jackson owned slaves, as well??
https://youtu.be/JoauvIx5cWc
Who gives this RACIST Don Lemon the right to rewrite American Hstory?Must DC and Washington State be renamed, as well?
Where does this idiocracy end?
I vote for the Lincoln Memorial because he only emancipated slaves in the rebel states.
How many of our presidents owned slaves?
-—snip-—
GEORGE WASHINGTON (between 250-350 slaves)
- THOMAS JEFFERSON (about 200)
- JAMES MADISON (more than 100)
- JAMES MONROE (about 75)
- ANDREW JACKSON (fewer than 200)
- Martin Van Buren (one)
- William Henry Harrison (eleven)
- JOHN TYLER (about 70)
- JAMES POLK (about 25)
- ZACHARY TAYLOR (fewer than 150)
- Andrew Johnson (probably eight)
- Ulysses S. Grant (probably five)
It’s a commonplace that Abraham Lincoln never trafficked in slaves, much less owned them – indeed, he “freed the slaves.” But here’s the shocker: Although the slave trade had been abolished in the District of Columbia in 1850, slaves inhabited the capital for another 15 years – till the end of the Civil War. Dwell on that thought: Lincoln fought the Civil War in a slave city – the Great Emancipator inhabited a White House staffed by slaves.
-—snip-—
One final point. Most historians argue that the biggest challenge the founders failed to confront was the existence of slavery on American soil. Our earliest presidents struggled to find solutions. The most radical proposal in the early days of the republic was to ship slaves and other blacks back to Africa. Jefferson was keen on the idea, believing that blacks would eventually have to be removed from the U.S. or else whites would live in perpetual dread that the slaves would rise up in rebellion. Such fears prompted a later president, James Monroe, to support the creation of the American Colonization Society (founded 1816-1817).
The Society was not just well-intentioned. It raised money, acquired lands in what is present-day Liberia, and supported passage of emancipated slaves, former indentured servants, and free blacks across the Atlantic to the west coast of Africa. The Society named the major settlement in the colony Monrovia in honor of our nation’s fifth president.
http://hauensteincenter.org/slaveholding/
They’re already working on $20 … they want to replace Jackson.
These morons think we can just sweep our past under the rug. Sorry … not gonna happen.
I fear we may eventually be heading to another civil war. But it won’t be as neatly divided as North v. South.
The left is showing themselves to be just like the Taliban and ISIS.
Please send all your twenties to me . I promise to dispose of them in a dignified and beneficial manner.
It’s really just not fun to live in this country anymore. Everyday it’s some new form of idiocy.
Life used to be so joyful, so carefree. You knew you lived in the greatest country in the world and it was an incredible time. Glad I am old enough to have at least experienced that America while it existed.
Until there is a we the people who will flush the filth out of Washington, this sort of crap will continue to float across America.
There is something to be learned from the communists. If you're not on offense, you're on defense. And defense seems to always lose.
You called it.
I guess Mt. Rushmore will have to get that Obama makeover now too, huh?
We’re going to have to change the name of our nation’s capital as well as that of the Chinook State. We will also have to replace the face that’s on the one dollar bill.
He emancipated slaves in territories and states under Union Authority.
If those that created our constitution also owned slaves, and therefore don’t deserve our respect, it stands to reason that their sensibilities can not be trusted and, therefore, the constitution is so seriously flawed as to be replaced.
I believe that is where they are going with this. Don’t believe me? Did you think, 20 years ago, that many of the issues today that are being pursued with a frenzy would ever even be issues at all? How about ten years ago? How about five?
How about 2?
It is happening VERY fast. Hence my tag line.
Taxpayers are slaves today.
I refuse to surrender anything to the bigots, ON EITHER SIDE. 1 in 33 men, women and children died during the civil war, to give up that history is beyond any sensible reason, and dishonors the sacrifices of so many.
To anyone who comes after the battle flag, I say - shall you blame cars for drunk driving? Pencils for spelling errors? Go after the bigots, you lazy createns. Stop blaming inanimate objects for the evils of others.
Twenties? I thought they were looking to dump Hamilton of the ten. I’ve heard it said Indian casinos won’t accept twenties.
Maybe Obama can get a good deal on having ISIS doing the demolition work on the Jefferson Monument. If they do a good job then maybe Governor McAwful of Virginia can have them demo Monticello. </sarc>
Why save the symbols when we let socialists, communists, Marxists and Fascists to permeate every corner of our government and take control of EVERYTHING?
The way this panic is progressing I expect Stone Mountain to be completely smooth by the end of the day.
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