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Charlottesville Mayor: Don't Worry, Jefferson Can Still Celebrate Birthday 'in Hell'
townhall.com ^
| 7/20/2019
| Cortney O'Brien
Posted on 07/20/2019 7:59:59 AM PDT by rktman
Thomas Jefferson's birthday in mid-April is currently recognized as a city holiday in Charlottesville, VA. But if it was up to Mayor Nikuyah Walker, she'd change it to Liberation and Freedom Day. The alternative holiday, which she proposed at a city council meeting last month, would instead celebrate the emancipation of slaves in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Walker is one of several people advocating for the change because it's well known that Jefferson, the third president of the United States and drafter of the Constitution, was also a slave owner.
Some citizens are up in arms over her suggestion, accusing her of trying to sanitize history. But she has no clue why because, as she explained in a recent message, Jefferson is still celebrating his birthday "in hell." She
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2020election; albemarlecounty; california; charlottesville; dispicable; dukeuniversity; election2020; h8ers; justinfairfax; meredithwatson; metoo; nikuyahwalker; northcarolina; ralphnortham; thomasjefferson; vanessatyson; virginia
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To: LouAvul
These are the kind of people we have running our urban areas. It is no wonder why the urban partys of are country are such hell holes. They are worried about social justice and not running a city. Tax dollars are spent on other more important things while the city falls apart around them.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:16:55 AM PDT
by
Destroyer Sailor
(Revenge is a dish best served cold. Z)
To: rktman
How do these ding-bats get elected to positions of responsibility - such as mayors of influential cities?
I am amazed - and saddened!!!
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:17:32 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: rktman
Remind the Democrats that Jefferson is the founder of their damn sorry political party.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:18:01 AM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: rktman
Just liberals projecting again.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:18:06 AM PDT
by
robel
To: rktman
Just a way of blaming Whitey for her self-inflicted pathologies.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:19:25 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: All
Mayor Nikuyah Walker
Mmmmmmm....them chitlin's must be g-o-o-o-d.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:20:07 AM PDT
by
Liz
( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
To: dfwgator
It’s a sliding scale. Compared to how the typical FR Poster thinks, I would call him a typical Liberal of the time.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:24:34 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: rktman
She did this on facebook. She is a racist to the core.
She said she was whitewashing Jefferson’s memory.
I wonder what would this mad cow’s reaction be if someone said MLK can celebrate his b-day in hell, or that we were blacklisting his memory? Hmmmm?
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:25:13 AM PDT
by
Migraine
To: JBW1949
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:25:26 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:27:06 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
To: Migraine
Butt butt, butt don’t Facebook rules forbi....... Oh, never mind. What was I thinking?
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:28:06 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
"Walker disrupts a City Council meeting on August 21, 2017"
To: rktman
If Jefferson’s in hell Walkers ancestors are serving him there
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:30:41 AM PDT
by
MadLibDisease
(Proudly residing in Dar-al-Harb since 1959)
To: rlmorel
Even ugly, racist, black women can rise to positions of authority.There's a lot of them nationwide. Mayor and police chief primarily. A white guilt thing I guess.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:30:59 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Rebelbase
I bet her anger doesnt stop her from spending taking nickles and fivers. Hypocrite beoytch.Fixed it.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:34:08 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
To: Liz
A year in office, payoffs, designer clothes. From REI
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:34:38 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Liz
Apparently fat stupid and ugly is the way to go through political life!
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:36:44 AM PDT
by
Reily
To: real saxophonist
Fivers would be A. Lincoln
Two dollar bills T. Jefferson
Three dollar bills Obama.
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:39:15 AM PDT
by
Reily
To: Theodore R.
Giving slaves their freedom was illegal at the time in the Virginia Colony. Jefferson tried to overturn this in the House of Burgesses. A little inconvenient fact for the Communists. (I no longer call them Democrats)
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posted on
07/20/2019 8:39:53 AM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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