Posted on 03/02/2020 12:31:45 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The city of Charlottesville, Va., will celebrate a holiday commemorating the end of slavery this year instead of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday.
According to The Washington Post, Jefferson’s birthday had been recognized annually by the city for more than 70 years.
The move comes months after the local city council voted to drop the official holiday celebrating his birthday, April 13, in place of Liberation and Freedom Day on March 3, which marks the day in 1865 when Union troops emancipated slaves.
Three of the council’s four members voted in favor of taking Jefferson’s birthday off the calendar.
Kathy Galvin, the only member of the council who opposed the swap last year, argued at the time, however, that “doing away with Thomas Jefferson's birthday doesn't do away with the history.”
"That birthday is still here. What he has done in the past is there,” she said.
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They could demand that everyone descended from a slaveholder leave the country. Of course that would include a large part of the black population, so they would have to make an exception for anyone with African ancestry (unless they have been passing for white).
My wording was careful, I wrote “roots” in slavery. I was being sarcastically racist.
There was one Antifa snowflake wannabe gave me a real dirty look and started looking around for other Antifa Snowflake wannabee’s to gang up on me.
OK, Boomer.
Not our history. Our history as Republicans is freeing the slaves. The Confederacy is Democrat history.
The only tie the modern South has to the Conferderacy is that it occupies the land the Confederacy once dirtied. That no more ties Southerners to the Conferderacy then it ties Germans and Japanese to the evil regimes that once occupied their land. If the Conferderacy is your history, it's by your choice and nothing more.
It is the history of these United States of America.
I can agree with that, and we should remember it in the same way the Germans remember the holocaust, with mourning and resolve to never let it happen again. They don’t remember it by celebrating Hitler’s birthday.
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