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.

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[southernerwithanattitude]

Hank Johnston is proudly known as the stupidest male member of the U.S. Congress. “I’m worried the island might tip over”

[HiTech RedNeck]

To rate these persons on the issue one can’t necessarily use a blanket yes/no. One would also need to ask: how did their practices compare with the practices that were common in that time and place?

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[jeffersondem]

When the bulldozers get to the mall, will they tear down all the monuments to white supremacists - just to be fair? “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

-Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

[Walrus]

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

- goals 20 and 21 from 45 communist Goals for America

[ilovesarah2012]

Barack Obama’s Family Owned Slaves

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2008/04/barack-obamas-family-owned-slaves/

Michelle Obama’s family tree has roots in a Carolina slave plantation

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama-slavery-01-dec01-story.html#page=1

[Sir Napsalot]

No surprise here, Mao’s Cultural Revolution is Left’s blue print.

I just didn’t see Americans willingly (meekly) go along with it.

[Boogieman]

We’ll have to rename Washington D.C.

I propose we call it “George Washington Carver D.C.”, because then we just have to add a couple more words to all the monuments and signs instead of redoing them completely.

Then there’s the one dollar bill. It would cost too much to reprint all those, so let’s just tell everyone to color him in with a brown crayon. Anyone caught with a “white Washington” single will have to forfeit it as contraband.

[ForYourChildren]

This is all about the manipulation of useful idiots feelings. Create a mob mentality around a percieved injured feeling, do not use reason or facts. Stoke the flames as see what damage can be created. The leftist love this. The only ones that stand up to this are reasoning sound conservatives. And this allows the leftists with the wicked and evil mms to run conservatives all over defending the foundation of society, while the leftist rip it apart.

[Boogieman]

“Guarded by Feds who sometimes won’t even let you look at it from interstate.”

They don’t want anyone seeing Obama’s head half-finished before they unveil it.

[Gritty]

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

A better question would be, "Should CNN be prosecuted for treason because they routinely showcase avowed Communists and anti-American Radicals on their unwatched network?"

[CSM]

Our future is known and history is unknown! -Russian sentiment

[rockrr]

Was he the one with the cigar or the one that played the harp?

[Captain Peter Blood]

While Slavery was an Abomination, consider this, if there had not been slavery what would the black population of the U.S. be?

If you look at the % of Blacks in Europe, it about 2 to 3% at the most, not much more than that. I would assume that is the population from natural migration from Africa.

The same would be probably even less for the U.S. from natural migration.

[CSM]

“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.”

I agree. My suggestion would be St. Petersburg, or simply “the kremlin.”

[Vic S]

In the 1953 Reece Commission on Tax Exempt Foundations they found that the Carnegie Foundation had been trying since 1909 to change the way United States History was taught. The Rockefeller Foundation was assigned International History.

Sounds like they are still at it. Only this time they are really trying to just eliminate US History altogether.

[Daveinyork]

“Wilson filled his cabinet with Southern white supremacists.”

IOW, Democrats.