Posted on 03/02/2020 7:17:31 PM PST by Altura Ct.
The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will not honor the birthday of Thomas Jefferson this spring for the first time since World War II. The Washington Post reports that the city will instead celebrate the demise of slavery this coming Tuesday.
The holiday is known as Liberation and Freedom Day. It will commemorate when Union troops arrived in the city in March 1865 and freed enslaved people.
The change is the latest example of this southern city reckoning with its history. It began when the city tried to remove its Confederate monuments. That inspired white supremacists to stage the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally.
The Confederate monuments that drew the neo-Nazis remain standing. A judge ruled last year that the statues should stay.
Meanwhile, Charlottesville will be celebrating Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and Che’s birthdays. They were all “down for da struggle”, yo.
Inevitable after the disaster at Appomattox.
Negroes vote
Jefferson don’t
No politicians to pay
So you got no hol-lee-day
:)
That inspired white supremacists to stage the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally.
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They never tire of flogging that dead lie.
The demoKKKrats are still mad about Lincoln setting their slaves free. Boy, talk about holding a grudge!!
Very famous African American of Virginia.
Tell them how they’re honoring a Republican defeat of Democrats.
Demonrats were on the wrong side then, too.
“They never tire of flogging that dead lie.”
If it’s at the site of ANY MSM TV/radio station or newspaper, just assume whatever you are reading is a lie! ;)
Does anyone remember how mad this made the Democrats last time?
Four years of war.
After all, the whole point of America from the very beginning was to enslave Africans and kill Indians, so it is fitting that they forget one of the fathers of this bastard nation. Isn’t that what they learned in school from Howard Zinn — that the world would have been better off without America? I’m just surprised they could find enough white men who were willing to free the slaves. Probably because Old Abe forced them to.
The greatness of Thomas Jefferson in American history will never be diminished by petty race hustlers making inane political points.
If you believe that the people in 1776, or 1860 who advocated consent of the governed are the same people that want to elect Joe Biden today, then you probably think that Republican Willard Romney is the same as Republican Donald Trump.
It is a little more complicated than that.
And one other thing: If North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Arkansas don't all vote to reelect President Trump - then this country is done.
Think about that.
Nothing new really. For some eighty years after the fall of Vicksburg, Miss. on July, 4, 1863 the residents of Vicksburg didn’t celebrate The Fourth Of July. Confederates. Bunch of sore losers.
>>The change is the latest example of this southern city reckoning with its history. It began when the city tried to remove its Confederate monuments.
Trump predicted they’d go after Washington an Jefferson.
Elections have consequences!
You keep advocating for slavery as if it were a “Conservative” position. It’s not and never was. Enslavement is a left-wing thing. All the way back to the Garden of Eden with the snake.
Since you’re a relative n00b and didn’t land here until 2013 (I’ve been here since 1998), unless you were here from about 2006-12, you will know I was the most militant anti-Willard poster on FR and spent thousands of hours and posts exposing him and his leftist agenda and similarly encouraged FReepers to demand he be denied the Presidential nomination in 2012 and to vote third party if he wasn’t.
We will reelect Trump. Count on it.
Where in Jersey ?
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