Posted on 07/23/2015 7:52:48 AM PDT by FiddlePig
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are history in Connecticut.
Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.
Party leaders voted unanimously Wednesday night in Hartford to rename the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in the aftermath of last month’s fatal shooting of nine worshipers at the historic black church in Charleston, S.C.
The decision is believed to be unprecedented and could prompt Democrats in other states with similarly-named events to follow suit.
“I see it as the right thing to do,” Nick Balletto, the party’s first-year chairman, told Hearst Connecticut Media Wednesday night. “I wasn’t looking to be a trailblazer or set off a trend that’s going to affect the rest of the country. Hopefully, they’ll follow suit when they see it’s the right thing to do.”
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What a bunch of jerks. Doesn’t change a thing does it.
Eventually there will be pressure to get George Washington off of the one-dollar bill and to rename “Washington DC”.
All this and certainly more to come cuz of that little murdering bastard.
Henceforth, the dinner will be named, “The George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Robert Byrd Dinner”
Yeah, never mind the fact that he’s the Father Of Our Country, he owned some slaves back then when half the world did so.
National Association for the Advancement of Commie Colored People
Don’t forget the racist Woodrow Wilson.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.—
John F. Kennedy
—
Uh oh. Better purge JFK too, Democrats.
The li'l bastard is just a tool in the left's march to totalitarianism/fascism/communism. He's the Reichstag Fire event they were looking for. I'll bet if you could see into the hearts of the radical left, they are secretly grateful to the li'l bastard. His 9 victims are just soldiers who gave their lives for the revolution.
The Democrats (and most establishment Republicans) cut their ties with our founding fathers and the Constitution a long time ago. Now they’re just making it official...
To be honest, in spite of his ardent segregationist past, while governor, Lester Maddox placed more blacks in positions of authority in Georgia state government than any of his predecessors, IIRC.
AND he could ride a bicycle backwards! (Maybe if Teddy had used a bicycle for his ‘dates’, he would have become President...)
:-)
Politics is STRANGE!
And Washington state.....................
I think they should name it the Marx-Stalin Memorial Dinner.
Would be truth in advertising.
Demoncrats now equal ISIS and 0bummers ISIL.
What scum trying to erase our US history.
Symbolism over substance...... and the symbolic effort only indicts the democrats rats. These people are idiots.
Good thought... but... to be “inclusive” just change the clearly racist “colored” to Communist... then they also will not have to order new business cards and stationary. We “Fiddle” guys have to stick together!
When are the Democrats going to address their OWN history? The Dem party should fold & merge with their ideological comrades: The Communist Party.
Wonder how the descendants of Sally Hemmings feel about this.
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