Posted on 07/03/2019 4:58:46 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The city of Charlottesville will no longer celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s birthday as an official city holiday and instead will observe a day recognizing the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.
The City Council voted Monday to scrap the April 13 holiday honoring the slave-holding Founding Father. Charlottesville will now mark Liberation and Freedom Day on March 3, the day U.S. Army forces arrived in the city in 1865.
Charlottesville has been grappling with how to tell its history of race and discrimination. Those efforts intensified after white nationalists gathered in the city in 2017 for a rally that descended into deadly violence.
The legacy of Jefferson, the nation’s third president, author of the Declaration of Independence and founder of the University of Virginia, has been part of that debate.
Last month, Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors approved replacing the paid holiday with a floating holiday .
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A pox on all who preach the BS that ‘diversity is a strength’.
I pray to God that we will be able to save this once great and powerful nation.
It will take white men of courage and conviction to stand up. Are there many left?
I remember a woman doing our tour through the house and she was also very professional and as you described your guide, also a serious historian. Outside, as it was a gorgeous day, I did the garden tour with a lovely and knowledgeable woman. The one dealing with slavery was crammed with schoolkids, so it was good to do this other one with mainly adults, lol.
and instead will observe a day recognizing the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.
Who were held in Slavery and Bondage by the DEMOCRATS!!!
Charlottesville is named after King George III’s queen. George, of course assigned licenses for slave traders in the British colonies.
That ought to twist them up a little, but it won’t.
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