So can I assume that since you want to honor Confederate ancestors and place an emotional stake on "heritage" issues, you'll be supporting the bid for reparations for slavery? Will you also be addressing the reparations for the living victims of official segregation (which only ended 40 years ago)?
Or will you want to put up flags and monuments to greatly honor your ancestors, all while claiming that slavery is ancient history?
You can't have it both ways.
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Jeez, Chancellor Palpatine, that's a non sequitur, if I've ever heard one.
What was the original name of the Federal holiday we are celebrating today? It was "Washington's Birthday" wasn't it?
Wasn't that the same "Washington" that owned a certain slave plantation named Mount Vernon?
And don't forget that slave-owning Founding Father "Jefferson" on the 5 cent coins in your pocket with his slave plantation "Monticello" on the reverse of that coin.
Do you support stripping Washington's portrait off of the Dollar bill and the Quarter and stripping Washington's name off of Washington, DC and Washington State and renaming that monumental oblisk on the Washington Mall because he was a slave owner?
Do you support stripping Jefferson off the 5 cent coin and putting someone else's statue in his Memorial because he was a slave owner?
If not, can we all "ass-u-me" that........
..... since you want to honor slave owning Americans and place an emotional stake on America's "heritage", you'll be supporting the bid for reparations for slavery? Will you also be addressing the reparations for the living victims of official segregation (which only ended 40 years ago)?
Or will you want to put up flags and monuments to greatly honor Washington and Jefferson, all while claiming that slavery is ancient history?
You can't have it both ways.