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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: Reily; Rebelbase

I was just quoting Rebelbase. The mare will take twos, too.


41 posted on 07/20/2019 8:44:03 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: rktman

What would a democrat know of religion? They sure know Hell since they murder children.


42 posted on 07/20/2019 8:44:04 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: JBW1949

My tag line is there


43 posted on 07/20/2019 8:46:12 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: teeman8r

I don’t know what happened to mine...


44 posted on 07/20/2019 8:47:41 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: elpadre

Don’t forget “our own” Nikki Haley took down Confederate flags, so it is not just the party of the KKK that is the party of stupid and nasty actions and words.


45 posted on 07/20/2019 8:55:02 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Liz

She should be picking cotton......or blocking the Straits of Hormuz....one or the other!


46 posted on 07/20/2019 8:55:07 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump IS The Resistance!)
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To: bk1000

Amen
From Orwell’s 1984: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”


47 posted on 07/20/2019 8:55:32 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (yawn)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

.....she’s big enough to do the latter........


48 posted on 07/20/2019 9:08:45 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: rktman

The founding fathers never claimed to be perfect. They tried to outlaw slavery in the beginning, but there was simply not enough votes to ratify it. And the people who argued against slavery from the beginning NEVER gave up.

But now liberals have perfected morality to such a degree that they can sit in judgement of all mankind since the creation of the earth and they are the sole arbiters of right and wrong. Just like Satan, they condemn you on your failures instead of remembering your triumphs and celebrating them.


49 posted on 07/20/2019 9:09:30 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: rktman

Send her back.


50 posted on 07/20/2019 9:09:55 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: rktman

Liberation and freedom

From the Democratic Party


51 posted on 07/20/2019 9:10:08 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Liz

Roll her back into the water so she can breathe...


52 posted on 07/20/2019 9:11:38 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Migraine
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?

You talking about Rapey MLK? Is that the guy?  face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy

53 posted on 07/20/2019 9:12:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Reily

Queer as a three-dollar Barry...


54 posted on 07/20/2019 9:13:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: rktman

Alternatively, how about “Return to Africa day”?


55 posted on 07/20/2019 9:14:37 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("I'm mad, y'all" -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
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To: rktman
Just wondering what the descendant children said to be Jefferson's think about all this, are they ready to disclaim they are kin to Jefferson? Just wondering.

To stay honest to their hatred of Black Slave owners, they would have to change their last names.......who will be the first?

56 posted on 07/20/2019 9:23:45 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: rktman

I say over and over that part of the emancipation of slaves should have been to repatriate every last one of them for humanitarian reasons. Making them instant citizens has not turned out so well nor was letting the Democrat Party do and say whatever the hell it wanted up to today. We are losing this nation rapidly.


57 posted on 07/20/2019 9:37:33 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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https://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-a-g/city-council/council-members/nikuyah-walker-mayor


58 posted on 07/20/2019 10:03:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Cecily

The neo cons took over the University and this is what you get.


59 posted on 07/20/2019 10:14:05 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: shanover

The communist Republicans who started the war and have built the govt into a huge monstrocity of over taxation and the elites reaping the benefits. Made them citizens so they could help put in the puppet govt in the south after the war.


60 posted on 07/20/2019 10:17:37 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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