Yea, right.
Posted on 08/17/2017 1:07:48 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Two days after President Trump questioned whether tearing down Confederate statues would lead leftists to targeting statues and monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers, CNN commentator Angela Rye did exactly that.
“We have to get to the heart of the problem here and the heart is the way many of us were taught American history. American history is not all glorious,” Rye said in a heated segment on Thursday.
“George Washington was a slave owner. We need to call them out for what they are, whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not. He wasn’t protecting my freedoms. My ancestors weren’t deemed human beings to him. And so to me, I don’t care if it’s a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue, they all need to come down,” she added.
Rye’s comments, which were first pointed out by the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday, come amidst heated national debate on whether to tear down Confederate monuments and statues around the country.
President Trump weighed in on the debate on Thursday.
“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” Trump tweeted. “You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!”
I wonder if CNN commentator Angela Rye believes that all Blacks whose last name is Washington or Jefferson have to change their names. Perhaps to Obama or Hussein would be nice.
But AFRICAN history is AWESOME, right?
Robert Byrd’s first.
Why are we pussyfooting around with statues honoring the Confederacy? Don’t memorials at Auschwitz and Dachau need to be torn down first? Weren’t they erected by actual Nazis? Can’t we erase ALL world history we don’t like?
Half of America will probably agree with this moron.
They know trends are on their side. We have become so weak as a civilization that we cannot effectively defend our past.
Legions of American youth, radicalized and demented, already reject most of their own history thanks to leftist-controlled education.
Many of them now feel no loyalty or love of their own history and that includes the Founders.
Not sure what they'll do with "George Washington Carver".
Yea, right.
King Tut was a slave owner.
Should his museum exhibit be destroyed?
Kinda hard to to that when the nitwit wasn't even born.
He only fought a war against the world's largest Empire at the time and risked his life to do so....for freedom.
“...Does anyone on the left have an original thought? Suddenly all the statues have to come down?...”
They’re totally incapable of an “original thought”.
They’re like the zombies on Walking Dead: totally useless, suck the life out of the living, dangerous as hell and about the only thing they’re good for is target practice. Folks around here call that show: “The Walking Democrats”.
Same reason as why PETA idiots attack little old ladies in fur coats, and not Biker Gangs in leather jackets.
CNN needs to come down and get waterboarded to ID their leaker buddies.
African Islamic History is THE BEST!
Exactly!
“...What’s next? “All white people must turn in their guns NOW!!!”...”
Yeah, like hell that’s gonna happen.
They can push for it, but they’ll be seeing guns alright....from the wrong end of the barrel.
They would claim it is racist somehow.
Let’s rename Washington DC to Trump’s town and state of Washington to (in honor of Seattle’s Lenin statue) Lenin. Time to fight back...
You can’t name DC Obamaville.
Obama’s white ancestors owned slaves.
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