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.

[Mich Patriot]

streets named for MLK are offensive

...and dangerous, even in the daytime.

[God luvs America]

i stick it to them over this every opportunity i get...

[Buckeye McFrog]

...to be replaced by a W.E.B. DuBois Memorial

[GeorgiaDawg32]

What is humorous to me, as a resident of Georgia, the big argument was to remove the state flag because it had the southern cross. It was replaced by almost an exact duplicate of the National Flag of the Confederacy and no one blinks an eye. In my opinion, they replaced the state flag with one that is even more confederate.

[InterceptPoint]

George Washington owned slaves most of his life. I suggest this well known fact justifies, in fact commands, a change in the name of our Capital Washington DC.

How about:
Roosevelt DC?
Fonda DC?
Sharpton DC?
Obama DC?

[RobbyS]

Wilson filled his cabinet with Southern white supremacists.

[HiTech RedNeck]

YES! It hasn’t yet dawned on the attack dogs what they are attacking.

To complain in the abstract about anti-black politics is one thing.

To get concrete... now all of a sudden Republicans start looking really nice (and Democrats, nasty).

[EQAndyBuzz]

And the reason this is happening? Because the TPP and other trade agreements which are about to be voted on guarantees that we will be importing foreign workers for the next 20 years, which will take the jobs from blacks.

By firing up the natives, the left is distracting them from their own demise. By using a symbol that is irrelevant to the conversation no less.

[GOYAKLA]

AC/DC !

Politicians do not know which direction to go!

[Lazamataz]

Karl Marx never owned slaves. Maybe we should start revering Karl!

[IMR 4350]

Let’s start with removing Robert KKK Byrd’s name from everything.

[Bubba_Leroy]

How about first renaming all those streets and buildings that were named after KKK leader Robert Byrd?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Who needs to go capture and buy some, when you can get millions to fall willingly for your writings!

[HiTech RedNeck]

#Byrd tweets

[luvbach1]

The Demonrats claim Jefferson (with their Jefferson Day dinners) don’t they? But Jefferson was a individual-rights conservative who would abhor the socialist Dems of today.Oh yes, I know he had slaves.

[luvbach1]

PC run amok!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bait and switch artists.

Promise you every right under the moon, and then sell you out with a cynical plan to control them all via socialism.

Tom Jeff would indeed tell them they are full of rotten baloney.

[Walrus]

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

- Goal #30 of the 45 Communist Goals for America

[PLD]

Thomas Jefferson and Slavery

Thomas Jefferson was a consistent opponent of slavery his whole life. Calling it a “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot,” he believed that slavery presented the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation. Jefferson also thought that slavery was contrary to the laws of nature, which decreed that everyone had a right to personal liberty. These views were radical in a world where unfree labor was the norm.

http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-slavery

[databoss]

The American Taliban won’t rest until their properly defined racist past is eradicated. While we are at it lets see some major racist Dems from history:
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
ALL Dixiecrats
Harry Byrd
Richard Russell
George Wallace
Bull Connor
KKK