CNN Goes There: Asks If Thomas Jefferson Memorials Should Be Removed Because He Owned Slaves?

Zero Hedge ^ | 06/24/2015 | Tyler Durden

[SeekAndFind]

As the Confederate Flag hysteria escalates, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield asks fellow CNN mouthpiece Don Lemon if it’s now appropriate for lawmakers to start a future conversation about whether or not the monument of Thomas Jefferson should be removed from the U.S. Capitol.

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As DailySurge reports,

Thomas Jefferson–like a lot of people 270 years ago–owned slaves. He inherited them from his father. Jefferson gave away many of the estimated 170 slaves he owned after his death. While writing in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” Jefferson didn’t believe blacks and whites were equals.

 

But Thomas Jefferson didn’t want to divorce from the union in order to preserve slavery. In fact, Jefferson wrote constantly and argued regularly about whether or not the founders should include the abolition of slavery in the Bill of Rights.

The bespectacled Banfield speaks...

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Banfield is foolish to conflate the Confederate flag with a Thomas Jefferson memorial. And we fear the stupid won’t be receding anytime soon.

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Just one more reminder, as we noted earlier, it seems few had any major "tear down these flags" problems with The Confederate Flag until some nutjob kills less people than die in Chicago every Friday night. Populist policy-setting and news media provocation by Lowest Common Denominator appears to be the nanny-state's new media normal.

[11th Commandment]

Interesting, now we can only have monuments to sinless men except of course not including Jesus Christ. Whom shall we now honor?

[Biggirl]

This will all fade and fade soon into the long memory hole called summer.

[JPG]

[Dilbert San Diego]

FDR also locked up Japanese Americans. Liberals never criticize him for this action, though they abhor the action itself. They never say who was responsible for it.

[Malsua]

Hell, why not dig up all the Rebels and any identifying grave of anyone that existed before 1865 and dump them in a landfill. After all, they all existed at the same time slavery did so they must be guilty of something.

[alloysteel]

It is only a matter of time (and it will be astonishingly short) before display of the familiar Stars and Stripes, the United States national flag, is banned from display, just like the Northern Virginia battle flag, the Stars and Bars, is being driven underground everywhere.

The Stars and Stripes will be deemed too “reminiscent” of the “oppressive” history of the bad old United States of America, a nation once located on the North American continent, but now apparently eclipsed by history.

Fundamental transformation can go TOO far, you know.

Consider South Africa.

[WayneS]

I wonder if she was referring to the Jefferson Memorial, which is in the U.S. Capital, but is not in the U.S. Capitol; or the statue of Jefferson as the "Architect of the Declaration of Independence", which is in both the U.S. Capital and the U.S. Capitol - or maybe both?

[dmet]

And yet, all those who protest are carrying around the image of a slave owner who offered rewards for return of slaves and even a bonus if they were whipped ... The $20 bill. Where does it end?

[Capt. Tom]

Jefferson didn’t believe blacks and whites were equals.

Lincoln believed that also, and stated it in public in the Lincoln / Douglas debates. -Tom

[gorush]

It’s easy to understand the left’s attempt to shove Jefferson down the memory hole. Jefferson’s principles offend them greatly:

“When we
get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .”

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

[rovenstinez]

And Abraham Lincoln

[Daveinyork]

The Democrats here in York, PA still call their annual banquet the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, named after two slave-owners. To be consistent, they should change that, maybe to the Wilson-Roosevelt dinner, after the founders of modern progressivism.

[proxy_user]

He freed the slaves, rather than own them.

But I suppose to liberals, it’s pretty much the same thing. Microaggression, you know....

[WayneS]

For the record, the Battle Flag is not the Stars and Bars.

The Confederate Battle Flag is also known as “The Southern Cross”

The Stars and Bars was the national flag of the Confederacy.

[WayneS]

Abraham Lincoln did not free the slaves.

[Chickensoup]

The appropriate answer to this issue is SO WHAT?

That was then and this is now.

[Nea Wood]

It is only a matter of time (and it will be astonishingly short) before display of the familiar Stars and Stripes, the United States national flag...

We all know this kind of thing is going to be proposed...we're all predicting it mournfully...but what can we do to STOP it? We're Americans. We put men on the moon. We can't stop this?

[ElayneJ]

“This will all fade and fade soon into the long memory hole called summer.”

I don’t think it will. This will be the campaign issue of the left. They will simply call their opponents racists, as they have NOTHING to run on. And because voters have been taught nonstop that Republicans are bad, they will believe it. It won’t stop until someone has the courage to tell the truth and to bring the left’s real history into the open. Republicans have had chance after chance, and they won’t do it. Who will?

[God luvs America]

and needlessly placed 10’s of 1000’s of Japanese Americans in internment camps...

[Typelouder]

Eliminate all the memorials. Then at the next government shutdown, they wont have to put any barricades up.