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CNN Goes There: Asks If Thomas Jefferson Memorials Should Be Removed Because He Owned Slaves?
Zero Hedge ^ | 06/24/2015 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 06/24/2015 7:56:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

As the Confederate Flag hysteria escalates, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield asks fellow CNN mouthpiece Don Lemon if it’s now appropriate for lawmakers to start a future conversation about whether or not the monument of Thomas Jefferson should be removed from the U.S. Capitol.

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As DailySurge reports,

Thomas Jefferson–like a lot of people 270 years ago–owned slaves. He inherited them from his father. Jefferson gave away many of the estimated 170 slaves he owned after his death. While writing in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” Jefferson didn’t believe blacks and whites were equals.

 

But Thomas Jefferson didn’t want to divorce from the union in order to preserve slavery. In fact, Jefferson wrote constantly and argued regularly about whether or not the founders should include the abolition of slavery in the Bill of Rights.

The bespectacled Banfield speaks...

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Banfield is foolish to conflate the Confederate flag with a Thomas Jefferson memorial. And we fear the stupid won’t be receding anytime soon.

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Just one more reminder, as we noted earlier, it seems few had any major "tear down these flags" problems with The Confederate Flag until some nutjob kills less people than die in Chicago every Friday night. Populist policy-setting and news media provocation by Lowest Common Denominator appears to be the nanny-state's new media normal.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2; cnn; confederateflag; slaves; thomasjefferson
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To: bert
streets named for MLK are offensive

...and dangerous, even in the daytime.

41 posted on 06/24/2015 8:16:45 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were judged by the content of their character.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

i stick it to them over this every opportunity i get...


42 posted on 06/24/2015 8:17:30 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SeekAndFind

...to be replaced by a W.E.B. DuBois Memorial


43 posted on 06/24/2015 8:18:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: WayneS

What is humorous to me, as a resident of Georgia, the big argument was to remove the state flag because it had the southern cross. It was replaced by almost an exact duplicate of the National Flag of the Confederacy and no one blinks an eye. In my opinion, they replaced the state flag with one that is even more confederate.


44 posted on 06/24/2015 8:20:02 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training)
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To: SeekAndFind

George Washington owned slaves most of his life. I suggest this well known fact justifies, in fact commands, a change in the name of our Capital Washington DC.

How about:
Roosevelt DC?
Fonda DC?
Sharpton DC?
Obama DC?


45 posted on 06/24/2015 8:20:50 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Daveinyork

Wilson filled his cabinet with Southern white supremacists.


46 posted on 06/24/2015 8:22:32 AM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

YES! It hasn’t yet dawned on the attack dogs what they are attacking.

To complain in the abstract about anti-black politics is one thing.

To get concrete... now all of a sudden Republicans start looking really nice (and Democrats, nasty).


47 posted on 06/24/2015 8:27:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RobbyS

And the reason this is happening? Because the TPP and other trade agreements which are about to be voted on guarantees that we will be importing foreign workers for the next 20 years, which will take the jobs from blacks.

By firing up the natives, the left is distracting them from their own demise. By using a symbol that is irrelevant to the conversation no less.


48 posted on 06/24/2015 8:27:09 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Hillary..... Bwahahahahahahahaha....Thud)
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To: InterceptPoint

AC/DC !

Politicians do not know which direction to go!


49 posted on 06/24/2015 8:27:40 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: SeekAndFind

Karl Marx never owned slaves. Maybe we should start revering Karl!


50 posted on 06/24/2015 8:27:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s start with removing Robert KKK Byrd’s name from everything.


51 posted on 06/24/2015 8:28:07 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: SeekAndFind
How about first renaming all those streets and buildings that were named after KKK leader Robert Byrd?
52 posted on 06/24/2015 8:29:18 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Lazamataz

Who needs to go capture and buy some, when you can get millions to fall willingly for your writings!


53 posted on 06/24/2015 8:30:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

#Byrd tweets


54 posted on 06/24/2015 8:30:50 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Demonrats claim Jefferson (with their Jefferson Day dinners) don’t they? But Jefferson was a individual-rights conservative who would abhor the socialist Dems of today.Oh yes, I know he had slaves.


55 posted on 06/24/2015 8:32:18 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
PC run amok!!
56 posted on 06/24/2015 8:33:44 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

Bait and switch artists.

Promise you every right under the moon, and then sell you out with a cynical plan to control them all via socialism.

Tom Jeff would indeed tell them they are full of rotten baloney.


57 posted on 06/24/2015 8:34:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

- Goal #30 of the 45 Communist Goals for America


58 posted on 06/24/2015 8:35:39 AM PDT by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thomas Jefferson and Slavery

Thomas Jefferson was a consistent opponent of slavery his whole life. Calling it a “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot,” he believed that slavery presented the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation. Jefferson also thought that slavery was contrary to the laws of nature, which decreed that everyone had a right to personal liberty. These views were radical in a world where unfree labor was the norm.

http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-slavery


59 posted on 06/24/2015 8:37:11 AM PDT by PLD
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To: SeekAndFind

The American Taliban won’t rest until their properly defined racist past is eradicated. While we are at it lets see some major racist Dems from history:
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
ALL Dixiecrats
Harry Byrd
Richard Russell
George Wallace
Bull Connor
KKK


60 posted on 06/24/2015 8:37:47 AM PDT by databoss
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