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Posted on 10/14/2015 4:40:47 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Thomas Jefferson recently came under attack by University of Missouri (Mizzou) students who want a statue of the founding father removed from their campus because it makes them feel oppressed.
Via Campus Reform:
Students at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) have repeatedly covered a statue of Thomas Jefferson with post-it notes that include insults like, “Racist,” “Rapist,” “Abuser,” “Sexist,” and “Slave Owner.”
The statue, located on the east side of the Francis Quadrangle, has been covered in post-it notes several times even after some students removed the notes.
The Missourian, Mizzou’s on-campus newspaper, reported that the statue was a gift from the Jefferson Club, which consists of a board of trustees and donors. The club donated the statue in 2000 to commemorate Jefferson and the history of Mizzou.
According to The Missourian, grad student Maxwell Little created a petition in August which said “The Thomas Jefferson statue that sits on the quad of the University of Missouri campus delivers a nonverbal code” that affects him “emotionally and psychologically.” The petition says the statue must be removed in order to “project a progressive environment.”
While the petition gained little support, Maxwell teamed with several students to create the hashtag #PostYourStateOfMind to “engage people in a critical conversation about sexual assault and racism.”
Bryant Hill, another student involved in the creation of the initiative said in an interview with The Missourian, that they weren’t trying to “completely shove that down anybody’s throat, but just the idea of open dialogue and becoming more knowledgeable about the situation is important.”
Little’s petition talks about everything you might expect— Jefferson’s slave ownership, his views about how abolition would create chaos and, yes, Sally Hemings— arguing that the university’s embrace of the statue equates tacit support for rape, slavery and oppression.
“Removing Jefferson’s statue alone will not eliminate the racial problems we face in America today, but it will help cure the emotional and psychological strain of history,” the petition argues.
What the conversation about the “emotional and psychological strain of history” would be like today if Jefferson and other men like him had never existed on this continent, we probably don’t want to imagine.
The high school graduate of 1950 is equivalent to today's college graduate.
I think this is Marxism in action. They want the statue taken down because they want to advance their own historical narrative; so they invent a pretext to demand its removal.
They should leave the university.
There is no obligation in life for the world to conform to your sensitivities.
Imagine, someone feeling oppressed by a statue. They probably feel intimidated by trees and other tall plant life, mountains and large rocks. They really should be put in a locked ward someplace.
I think all these protestors need to be rounded up and taken to the hospital to have the maggots removed from their brains
That was true when I was in college and it's even more true today!
If they don’t like it, they’re free to go to another school……..
Put a statue of Marx up, a man who smoked and drank with his friends while his starving children were sick and dying in the other room.
For many college "graduates", you are being excessively generous.
Yes, preferably in another country. F them.
This needs to be restated as:
University students are emotionally disturbed.
Once again, time to lock up vocal leftists.
Bring back HUAC.
5 will get you 10 this nitwit student could not identify the correct century in which Jefferson lived.
B-b-b-but, didn’t Thomas Jefferson help the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?
No, high school grads of the 1950 could think and were patriotic. They had lived through the Great Depression and WWII and were still optimistic about the future. Hard to believe this whiner is their grandchild.
Maxwell Little
Academic Mentor at University of Missouri Department of Athletics Total Person Program
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United States | Higher Education
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Graduate Research Assistant at University of Missouri
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Academic Mentor at University of Missouri, Special Assistant to the Director of Athletics at City Colleges of Chicago, Sports Marketing/Game Day ...
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University of Missouri-Columbia, DePaul University, City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College
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I was a kid from the south (i.e., east side, state to Lake) side of Chicago living in Terror Town, attending Bradwell Elementary School; suspende...
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Emotionally disturbed? By a freakin STATUE? Seriously, get a life you freakin losers.
The same Maxwell Little?
Bryant Hill
Broadcast Operations Crew Member
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Broadcast Operations Crew at University of Missouri, Media Coordinator at Black Women Rock, Videographer at University of Missouri, Supervisor at...
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Mentor/ Tutor at Chicago Youth Centers
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University of Missouri-Columbia, DePaul University
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Bryant Hill is a student at the University of Missouri and is currently pursuing a duo of bachelors of arts degrees in both Film Studies and Comm...
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