Vee Must Erase Zee mistakes of Zee Past in order to make new Mistakes for Zee Future...
Posted on 06/23/2015 11:10:41 PM PDT by RightGeek
Edited on 06/24/2015 12:56:35 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
CNN DUMMY: Should We Take Down Thomas Jefferson Memorials Because He Owned Slaves?
CNN Host: Should We Take Down Thomas Jefferson Memorials Because He Owned Slaves?
The debate over whether or not the Confederate flag should be removed from government buildings in South Carolina is squeezing out weapons grade stupidity from just about every corner of the America media today.
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- Ripley
Then why not just ban Democrats? Weren’t all the confederate leaders Democrat?
Not all democrats owned slaves , but all slave owners were democrats.
Along with African repatriation?
Maybe we could remove him from the two dollar bill and put Hillary on it. Then leave Hamilton on the ten dollar bill :-(
George Washington owned slaves.
I think we need to change the name of the Capital from Washington DC to “Crony Island”.
Idiots.
How many of our presidents owned slaves?
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GEORGE WASHINGTON (between 250-350 slaves)
- THOMAS JEFFERSON (about 200)
- JAMES MADISON (more than 100)
- JAMES MONROE (about 75)
- ANDREW JACKSON (fewer than 200)
- Martin Van Buren (one)
- William Henry Harrison (eleven)
- JOHN TYLER (about 70)
- JAMES POLK (about 25)
- ZACHARY TAYLOR (fewer than 150)
- Andrew Johnson (probably eight)
- Ulysses S. Grant (probably five)
It’s a commonplace that Abraham Lincoln never trafficked in slaves, much less owned them – indeed, he “freed the slaves.” But here’s the shocker: Although the slave trade had been abolished in the District of Columbia in 1850, slaves inhabited the capital for another 15 years – till the end of the Civil War. Dwell on that thought: Lincoln fought the Civil War in a slave city – the Great Emancipator inhabited a White House staffed by slaves.
-—snip-—
One final point. Most historians argue that the biggest challenge the founders failed to confront was the existence of slavery on American soil. Our earliest presidents struggled to find solutions. The most radical proposal in the early days of the republic was to ship slaves and other blacks back to Africa. Jefferson was keen on the idea, believing that blacks would eventually have to be removed from the U.S. or else whites would live in perpetual dread that the slaves would rise up in rebellion. Such fears prompted a later president, James Monroe, to support the creation of the American Colonization Society (founded 1816-1817).
The Society was not just well-intentioned. It raised money, acquired lands in what is present-day Liberia, and supported passage of emancipated slaves, former indentured servants, and free blacks across the Atlantic to the west coast of Africa. The Society named the major settlement in the colony Monrovia in honor of our nation’s fifth president.
http://hauensteincenter.org/slaveholding/
Vee Must Erase Zee mistakes of Zee Past in order to make new Mistakes for Zee Future...
With the way our currency is going, we could then use the $2 Hillary bill for toilet paper.
Hillary is already on the three dollar bill.
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!
In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. …That is where they want to go with this; to have the present dominate and the past forgotten.
— Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2
His anti Christian positions remve him form the allah-crat media.
I wonder if Obama’s father’s side of the family, being Muslim, ever sold fellow Africans into slavery? It would be a hoot if Obama’s ancestors sold Michelle’s family into slavery! Now that would make an interesting Mini Series!
Hard to argue with.
You know, even as it may be that as a contributor to this forum, it doesn’t matter what I say or don’t say, I am starting to feel some trepidation in “speaking up”, even to this small extent.
Well, I always have been daring, in my own mind.
Obama owns about 122 million slaves (current estimate of full-time employee Americans).
They were born into a world with many evils different than we face today. They improved some and not others. But the efforts to ban slavery were there for a long time before they were successful. There are many heroes. John Quincy Adams, for example, even though he did not succeed. We can’t really rightly judge those people without waling in their shoes. They knew no other world. The practice had been common around the world from the beginning of time and every race had its tern at both roles.
Prior to the Civil War slavery had been banned in many states.
Since the colony of Connecticut imported and used Irish slaves in the 17th century, should we pull down all the memorials to Congregationalists (who ran the state and forbade Catholics to vote or own land) and dismantle all their old churches in Connecticut?
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