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CNN Goes There: Asks If Thomas Jefferson Memorials Should Be Removed Because He Owned Slaves?
Zero Hedge ^
| 06/24/2015
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 06/24/2015 7:56:30 AM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2; cnn; confederateflag; slaves; thomasjefferson
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To: InterceptPoint
“...a change in the name of our Capital...”
How about New Nairobi?
81
posted on
06/24/2015 9:19:50 AM PDT
by
beelzepug
(liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
To: SeekAndFind
This is straight from WU/commie playbook.
82
posted on
06/24/2015 9:23:40 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
To: SeekAndFind
Lets just get rid of the Constitution while we are at it. And the American flag. Hoist the star and Crescent because as OKenyan reminded us the US is a Muslim nation.
83
posted on
06/24/2015 9:32:16 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: timestax
84
posted on
06/24/2015 9:37:33 AM PDT
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: proxy_user
He freed the slaves, rather than own them.He freed the slaves in the south, did nothing for the ones in the north, and lived in the Whitehouse, which was staffed by slaves, before and during the entire war.
85
posted on
06/24/2015 9:40:20 AM PDT
by
verga
(I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
To: southernerwithanattitude
Hanks Surefire Blockbuster Hit TIPPING GUAM is due out in September...
its being distributed by BHO Pictures.....
86
posted on
06/24/2015 9:57:28 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
anyone who owned slaves must be ripped from the History Books—Tear up the constitution—a slave-document—Change the name of Washington to MLKville. All statues of CSA leaders must be pulled down like Hitler’s were! Blow up Stone Mountain! Replace it with a monument to Rosa Parks! While we are about it—do not teach the Civil War in schools. Blot it out! Turn Gettysburg into a low income housing space—and all monuments to that war! The word “Confederate” should be banned like the “N-word” it could be the “C-word”! Lets blank out that terrible racist event from the collective memory of the nation!
To: bert
I like MLK Boulevards because when I travel they let me know what neighborhoods to stay away from.
To: SeekAndFind
Yesterday Wolf of CNN asked if Walmart was ending the sale of the confederate flag, why not guns and ammo.
To: EQAndyBuzz
I think you may be right. Obama is a classic rabble rouser. He could not have got this far without serious money behind him. Corrupt Republican leaders know this and their own paymasters are telling them not to do anything serious to stop him.
90
posted on
06/24/2015 10:21:12 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
(quotes)
To: SeekAndFind
Like the good communists that they are, one of the first steps is to rewrite history...
91
posted on
06/24/2015 10:22:53 AM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: RobbyS
I heard a story about Obama on Caravan to Midnight last week. Jim Wiles of Trunews.com said that he was on a mission in Nairobi, Kenya a few years back and was told a story by a high level govt official from 2006.
There was an election for President between the Incumbant and Ngango ‘something’, Obama’s cousin. The incumbent won and Obama came over to see about the election. There were riots and razing of villages that were pro-Incumbant. One building was on set on fire and the women were tossing their babies out the burning windows to the people below and they were throwing the babies back into the building. It got so bad that they called Condoliza Rice and asked them to take their Senator Obama back and get him out of there, he was making it worse. He said he was sorry we elected Obama, because he is an agitator and will do the same thing to America.
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posted on
06/24/2015 10:33:16 AM PDT
by
Vic S
To: SeekAndFind
The Washington Monument should go and get them both off Mount Rushmore and the currency as well. And get rid of that first amendment too. In for a penny, in for a pound. /sarcasam
93
posted on
06/24/2015 10:54:06 AM PDT
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: Boogieman
DC is all we should call this center of socialism—its an insult to the memory of our first President.
94
posted on
06/24/2015 11:12:24 AM PDT
by
liberalism is suicide
(Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
To: SeekAndFind
95
posted on
06/24/2015 11:17:42 AM PDT
by
CPT Clay
To: PGR88
Completely nailed it.
Where are our cries to remove these politicians?
96
posted on
06/24/2015 11:51:36 AM PDT
by
KGeorge
(First the Confederate Battle Flag, then the Cross. It's not far off.)
To: SeekAndFind
If they got rid of the Jefferson Memorial, who would the MLK Jr. Memorial statue have to glare at across the Tidal Basin?
(and yes, the MLK Jr statue is definitely glaring straight at the TJ one.)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
...and Woodrow Wilson, too. He was one of the most, if not THE most, racist men to ever serve as president of the United States (prior to the current infester of the White House, of course)
98
posted on
06/24/2015 12:00:37 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it's raining...)
To: elcid1970
What if “they” are our own government?
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posted on
06/24/2015 12:01:30 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it's raining...)
To: PLD
Interesting opinions, given that he was a slave owner.
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posted on
06/24/2015 12:03:26 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it's raining...)
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