Posted on 08/17/2017 5:28:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New York activist Al Sharpton offered an emotional and personal case calling for the federal government to halt funding to Washington, D.C.'s Jefferson Memorial.
Sharpton said America's third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence had several slaves.
His iconic round-roofed memorial sits on the edge of Potomac River- the first of several monuments lining Washington's Ohio Drive.
Sharpton also noted how Jefferson is said to have fathered a child with a slave named Sally Hemings.
"People need to understand that people were enslaved," Sharpton told PBS' Charlie Rose.
He said that his great-grandfather was a slave who was owned by an ancestor of former Sen. J. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.).
"Our families were victims of this," he said. "Public monuments [to people like Jefferson] are supported by public funds."(continued)
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Great minds...
Says the tax evader who has avoided prison because of his black privelege.
People need to understand that there is still slavery in the muslim world, much of africa and other places in this world, but the U.S. fought a war, brother against brother and ended slavery in the U.S.A.
One of da revrund’s complaints is that these statues are on public property and are subsidized by taxes. I’m not sure why he cares as he doesn’t pay his.
Defund Al Sharpton.
We never have to worry about a monument to Al Sharptoon. It would structurally unstable with all the wobbling at the top.
My dogs every day leave “monuments” to criminal tax evader al on my neighbors’ lawns.
Let’s take all the nickels out of circulation while we’re at it
I don’t need to be reminded of this founding fart who founded
the Democrat party and also wrote a dumb letter that
Communists use to suppress Judeo-Christian religious expression
Twana Brawley. Freddy’s Fashion Mart. Sharpton has no cred.
Pay yo taxes Fool
Maybe they will decide to get rid of all the descendants of slaves who, after over 150 years can’t do anything for themselves because ............
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