CNN Goes There: Asks If Thomas Jefferson Memorials Should Be Removed Because He Owned Slaves?

Zero Hedge ^ | 06/24/2015 | Tyler Durden

[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.

[beelzepug]

“...a change in the name of our Capital...”

How about New Nairobi?

[Ray76]

This is straight from WU/commie playbook.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Lets just get rid of the Constitution while we are at it. And the American flag. Hoist the star and Crescent because as OKenyan reminded us the US is a Muslim nation.

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[verga]

He freed the slaves, rather than own them.

He freed the slaves in the south, did nothing for the ones in the north, and lived in the Whitehouse, which was staffed by slaves, before and during the entire war.

[MeshugeMikey]

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its being distributed by BHO Pictures.....

[Forward the Light Brigade]

anyone who owned slaves must be ripped from the History Books—Tear up the constitution—a slave-document—Change the name of Washington to MLKville. All statues of CSA leaders must be pulled down like Hitler’s were! Blow up Stone Mountain! Replace it with a monument to Rosa Parks! While we are about it—do not teach the Civil War in schools. Blot it out! Turn Gettysburg into a low income housing space—and all monuments to that war! The word “Confederate” should be banned like the “N-word” it could be the “C-word”! Lets blank out that terrible racist event from the collective memory of the nation!

[uncitizen]

I like MLK Boulevards because when I travel they let me know what neighborhoods to stay away from.

[stillfree?]

Yesterday Wolf of CNN asked if Walmart was ending the sale of the confederate flag, why not guns and ammo.

[RobbyS]

I think you may be right. Obama is a classic rabble rouser. He could not have got this far without serious money behind him. Corrupt Republican leaders know this and their own paymasters are telling them not to do anything serious to stop him.

[Sicon]

Like the good communists that they are, one of the first steps is to rewrite history...

[Vic S]

I heard a story about Obama on Caravan to Midnight last week. Jim Wiles of Trunews.com said that he was on a mission in Nairobi, Kenya a few years back and was told a story by a high level govt official from 2006.

There was an election for President between the Incumbant and Ngango ‘something’, Obama’s cousin. The incumbent won and Obama came over to see about the election. There were riots and razing of villages that were pro-Incumbant. One building was on set on fire and the women were tossing their babies out the burning windows to the people below and they were throwing the babies back into the building. It got so bad that they called Condoliza Rice and asked them to take their Senator Obama back and get him out of there, he was making it worse. He said he was sorry we elected Obama, because he is an agitator and will do the same thing to America.

[Phlap]

The Washington Monument should go and get them both off Mount Rushmore and the currency as well. And get rid of that first amendment too. In for a penny, in for a pound. /sarcasam

[liberalism is suicide]

DC is all we should call this center of socialism—its an insult to the memory of our first President.

[CPT Clay]

What jerks.

[KGeorge]

Completely nailed it.

Where are our cries to remove these politicians?

[tanknetter]

If they got rid of the Jefferson Memorial, who would the MLK Jr. Memorial statue have to glare at across the Tidal Basin?

(and yes, the MLK Jr statue is definitely glaring straight at the TJ one.)

[WayneS]

...and Woodrow Wilson, too. He was one of the most, if not THE most, racist men to ever serve as president of the United States (prior to the current infester of the White House, of course)

[WayneS]

What if “they” are our own government?

[WayneS]

Interesting opinions, given that he was a slave owner.