But this being in a student's dorm room? Okey dokey, and actually still quite fashionable to do so, IIRC.
Posted on 03/30/2019 4:30:47 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
Hofstra University student activists are calling for the removal of a statue of Thomas Jefferson from campus near New York City because they say the third American president represents racism and slavery.
Students participated Friday in the second annual “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!” event over the statue that has been subject to protests and acts of vandalism in the past, with some previously defacing it with “DECOLONIZE” and “Black Lives Matter” slogans.
A petition last year was launched urging to move the Founding Father’s statue to a museum with proper context rather than display it “on a college campus, especially not in front of a hub of student life.”
“Jefferson’s values aided in the construction of institutionalized racism and justified the subjugation of black people in the United States,” the petition read. “Jefferson has been embraced as an icon by white supremacist and neo-nazi organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and online white supremacist chat rooms.”
The Jefferson Has Gotta Go campaign, organized by students are other area activists, held the protest on Friday at the site of the statue.
Hofstra College Democrats told the campus watchdog that they too “want the statue to be removed and [we] stand with the Jefferson Has Gotta Go Campaign.”
“JGG isn’t just about a statue," former College Democrats executive board member Miranda Pino seconded. “Yes, the removal of the statue is important, but it is about what the statue represents: a legacy of racism and bigotry on college campuses.”
But the protesters are going further than just calling for removal of the statue. They are also demanding “an online, bias reporting system, an online complaint receipt program, and mandated, comprehensive, cultural competency training.”
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I’d like to see a picture of both of the protesters.
But this being in a student's dorm room? Okey dokey, and actually still quite fashionable to do so, IIRC.
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LMAO ....... Juicey might receive an absurd NAACP Image Award tonight, but after that he may ready to attend the unveiling of his statue.
I'm guessing whoever made this comment has never visited a white supremacist chat room.
#2 If you don’t like this country LEAVE! We created Liberia just for people like you.
#3 This country not only freed the slaves here but for the entire world (except for muslims)
#4 You are 12% of the population, you don’t get to dictate to the rest of us.
#5 Expel them!
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Well said .... except for # 5.
lol ....... love that sense of humor.
Well who IS Jefferson. Is he Satan? Is he Jesus Christ? Is he checkered? The brouhaha between partisans who will only settle for one extreme or the other is quite amusing.
From a Christian viewpoint, he was an “Invent his own bible” man. Saying it for what it’s worth. We have to be willing to be aloof from our grandest icons for the sake of God.
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
- George Orwell, “1984”
I hope HR departments all over the country are taking note...
America is supposed to be about ideals. Not about icons. Ditch the statues if we must in order to keep the peace, but don’t ever forget the role that even flawed persons played in carrying on the ideals. It’s all about God and a fallen humanity in the end analysis.
If they are following modern trends, such people thrill them.
They should look at themselves. His father’s ancestors in Africa could have
owned his mother’s ancestors in Africa. Could be reverse as well.
What you going to do? Void the world?
Very likely there was an ancestor born from a rival tribe rapist.
Shit has always happened.
Take away the white people from history and there is no western hemisphere
and whomever else there is would be living in huts, just like the ‘natives of this
continent’ lived in huts and tents.
Wherever there are no white people, people live in huts unless they have
advanced from knowledge acquired from white people.
Universities are totally corrupt.
Government grants for research on idiotic topics and athletic departments that are totally corrupt have eroded their morality.
Once morality is destroyed, there is no compass by which to guide behavior in the rest of life’s choices.
The universities are poisoning our education system from the child’s very first day in school. Just look at what comes out of the journalism departments.......
They have become part of the communist plan.
The first thing the communists do is destroy a nation’s history and all of the symbols of that nation’s past values. They do this because human nature is such that everyone has to believe in something or someone. So that need to believe in someone or something is transferred to the party....or the dear leader.
Our universities have become more dangerous to our way of life than any foreign government.
I will respect their moral evaluation of Jefferson when they contribute as much to the country as he did.
Where do these numb nut brainless snowflakes come from?
Hofstra should be razed and the liberated real estate used to build low income housing for the descendants of the survivors of Jefferson’s genocide.
The sad part is that they can do it and get nobody will stop them.
No need. The surrounding neighborhood is bad and colleges are open campuses.
The students have to go.
The teachers have to go.
Colleges have to go.
And if lower schools don’t knock it off, then they have to go too.
Quit making these useless fascist as5holes.
The New World was colonized and settled primarily by the Spanish, French and British. Atrocities against Indians occurred. Slavery was an abhorrent institution in the New World.
Yes, many sins were committed by Europeans in the New World. So, what should the activist Hofstra University students do to make things right? Let me suggest they all give their property and assets to those of African and Indian heritage and then take a DNA test to discover their predominate European heritage and then move to that European country.
Now let's move onto those nasty Romans and all the abuse they imposed on non-Romans. How can we get Italians, the predominate descendants of Romans, to pay reparations to those who suffered under Roman rule?? Let's see. How much money can we get for the Colessium, the Pantheon etc., etc......Pay up Romans!!! LOL!!
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