[RightGeek]

Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

- Ripley

[nickcarraway]

Then why not just ban Democrats? Weren’t all the confederate leaders Democrat?

[Cyman]

Along with African repatriation?

[dr_lew]

Maybe we could remove him from the two dollar bill and put Hillary on it. Then leave Hamilton on the ten dollar bill :-(

[P-Marlowe]

George Washington owned slaves.

I think we need to change the name of the Capital from Washington DC to “Crony Island”.

[Jim Robinson]

Idiots.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How many of our presidents owned slaves?

-—snip-—

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/

[easternsky]

When people got on board to ban this Flag, they gave the nod to whatever they bring down the pike, so hold on. They were just waiting for a dividing point and they found it,

[GraceG]

Vee Must Erase Zee mistakes of Zee Past in order to make new Mistakes for Zee Future...

[mass55th]

Should Obama be removed from office because his mother's family were slave owners?

YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

[NoLibZone]

His anti Christian positions remve him form the allah-crat media.

[Chgogal]

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!

[wastoute]

Einstein observed, “The only thing in the Universe that is more plentiful than protons is human stupidity.”

[virgil]

I’m so tired of communist agitators running the country.

[Semper Mark]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/22/us/first-lady-family-q-and-a.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/us/dna-gives-new-insights-into-michelle-obamas-roots.html

[skr]

Fair enough question. Where does it stop? How about renaming all of Robert Byrd’s namesakes? Removing the Washington monument? Can’t learn from history if it’s erased.

[markomalley]

[wardaddy]

I told folks it would not stop with simply southern heritage

They want it all

Anything with a whiff of white privilege

Or founded in prejudice by whites or against any and every minority

It’s fukcing tyranny we’re witnessing unfol
Fostered in large by the least responsible most violent segment of our culture engineered by their elite masters

[markomalley]

It would be appropriate for Senator Cruz, in response, to sponsor a bill to tear down the Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac and rename the Johnson Space Center to something less offensive.

After all,

(Source: Kessler, Ronald, Inside the White House [New York, Pocket Books, 1995], 33.)

[donna]

We must rename Washington DC!

[Altura Ct.]

Why wouldn’t we? and almost any other founder too? Most of our history and the American flag as well.

All of it is ‘racist’. It’s coming and the GOP will fall in line.

White Western culture and people are under attack.

Stand up white man.