Posted on 06/23/2015 11:10:41 PM PDT by RightGeek
Edited on 06/24/2015 12:56:35 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
CNN DUMMY: Should We Take Down Thomas Jefferson Memorials Because He Owned Slaves?
CNN Host: Should We Take Down Thomas Jefferson Memorials Because He Owned Slaves?
The debate over whether or not the Confederate flag should be removed from government buildings in South Carolina is squeezing out weapons grade stupidity from just about every corner of the America media today.
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Valerie Jarrett, too, is a descendent of slave owners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWk0ScXax9c
And although I’m having trouble relocating the information, IIRC, she is also a descendent of a white, Louisiana sugar cane plantation owner.
Indians and blacks owned slaves, IIRC.
“Not all democrats owned slaves , but all slave owners were democrats.”
George Washington, perhaps the largest slaveowner of his time, was not a Democrat. If anything he was a Federalist but he never joined any party.
Thomas Jefferson belonged to what was called the Republican Party in his time. Today it’s called the Democratic-Republican Party. Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, slaveowners, belonged to it. It split into the Democratic Party and the National Republican Party in 1824.
The Whigs were a precursor party of the modern Republicans. There were four Whig Presidents, Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and Fillmore. William Henry Harrison had owned slaves before he was President. Tyler owned slaves. Taylor owned slaves. Fillmore didn’t.
I've read that the first man to be enslaved indefinitely (as opposed to entering indentured servitude for a time period, which was common) was owned by a black man in Virginia. It came about as a result of a court decision in his favor. The (black) owner had sued a man who was trying to win his freedom. As I read the record, the court agreed with the owner and laid down the precedent for lifetime servitude.
There is no proof Grant ever owned more than one slave, who he freed in 1859, at a time when his family was in severe financial difficulty.
Julia Grant may have owned several slaves, or they may have belonged to her father, who lent them to her.
They are near the end, and they know it.
As I posted on a thread earlier tonight:
As Dick Cheney said so memorably, “It’s time for them to go” ... As with Clinton, late in the second term of a liberal Administration, when every lib in the country is frantically trying to get his or her “turn” before it’s over, it all descends into ridiculousness.
Einstein observed, “The only thing in the Universe that is more plentiful than protons is human stupidity.”
Nevermind the “Redskins”. When they get rid of that, they will go after the “Washington” next.
It is all about this question, “What can we make people do?”. Like training a dog, start with the easy stuff. Get ready, it is gonna get harder and harder and the dopes at the GOP are just slobbering all over the biscuits!
Here comes the American Taliban...blowing up all those monuments....
I’m so tired of communist agitators running the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/22/us/first-lady-family-q-and-a.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/us/dna-gives-new-insights-into-michelle-obamas-roots.html
Fair enough question. Where does it stop? How about renaming all of Robert Byrd’s namesakes? Removing the Washington monument? Can’t learn from history if it’s erased.
I told folks it would not stop with simply southern heritage
They want it all
Anything with a whiff of white privilege
Or founded in prejudice by whites or against any and every minority
It’s fukcing tyranny we’re witnessing unfol
Fostered in large by the least responsible most violent segment of our culture engineered by their elite masters
After all,
(Source: Kessler, Ronald, Inside the White House [New York, Pocket Books, 1995], 33.)
We must rename Washington DC!
Another interesting aspect is that southern slaveholders could come north and reclaim slaves for a finders fee. I don't know that all states allowed it, but at least some did. OH was one that did. So, should we take down the flags of all states that allowed this practice?
This is one reason why Cleveland has such a large, long-established black community. Slaves would follow the Cuyahoga River freedom trail, hiding, with the goal of reaching Canada. They'd get as far as Cleveland, but not have the means to cross Lake Erie to get to Canada.
This whole thing about removing any remnants of our history is deeply disturbing. First of all, because diverting attention to the Confederate flag took away a moment when US citizens were coming together in grief and outrage. Secondly, this is what is done when an entity wants to take over the hearts and minds of the people and destroy their freedoms....it erases all reference to their historic and cultural heritage.
FWIW, off hours, when there is a serious issue that some people want to discuss on an intellectual and informed level, this is about the only place that happens. There are a lot of informed, intelligent, and thoughtful posters on such discussion threads.
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