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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says he's no longer using his desk that once belonged to Woodrow Wilson
CNN ^ | June 30, 2020 | Alicia Lee

Posted on 06/30/2020 4:13:46 AM PDT by C19fan

When New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tweeted a picture of him observing a moment of silence in honor of George Floyd earlier this month, people were quick to point out that he was doing it from behind a desk that was engraved with the name of Woodrow Wilson.

Some found the image ironic because Murphy was remembering the unjust death of a Black man while sitting at a desk that once belonged to Wilson, a former New Jersey governor and US president who defended segregation and slavery.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: blm; iconoclasm; newjersey; philmurphy; race; woodrowwilson
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If the ship is going down, I have no problem taking the likes of Wilson along with it.
1 posted on 06/30/2020 4:13:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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At least he’s concentrating on important things.

How’s Camden doing?
Taxes?
Gun rights?
Money from vacationers?
Freedom?


2 posted on 06/30/2020 4:15:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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My historical knowledge of Wilson made me not a fan long before his KKK affection became well known.

That doesn't prevent these people from being idiots. Murphy has been a lousy a governor as has Cuomo.

3 posted on 06/30/2020 4:16:34 AM PDT by stevem
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Considering the track record, I think residents of NJ would rather have him not concentrate on anything.


4 posted on 06/30/2020 4:16:38 AM PDT by C19fan
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Racism solved...hallelujah. (snark)


5 posted on 06/30/2020 4:17:25 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Is the desk racist? Can you catch racist cooties from it?


6 posted on 06/30/2020 4:18:59 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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LOL, true.


7 posted on 06/30/2020 4:19:22 AM PDT by EEGator
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I dont like or respect Wilson but when the
Social movement is strong enough to cancel important historical figures and objects, then that social movement is far too powerful.


8 posted on 06/30/2020 4:21:27 AM PDT by Crucial
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Oh, good grief, don’t these mental midgets have ANYTHING better to do than whine about stuff that ended 150 years ago?


9 posted on 06/30/2020 4:24:08 AM PDT by Pravious
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Hey all you good folks in New Jersey.
Florida is open for you all to move to so come on down and get the hell out of the liberal crap you are all suffering through.


10 posted on 06/30/2020 4:28:29 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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What bothers me more about the ‘midgets’...if you actually tested them on the era that they want to talk about, they’d only test out at 40 to 50 percent of the ‘facts’.

It’s like asking them to use a marker, and mark Confederate states, and most all will mark in West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri as Confederacy members.

Same for asking them the significance of Gettysburg....they’d have no idea.


11 posted on 06/30/2020 4:30:37 AM PDT by pepsionice
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While liberals praise Planned Parenthood for its contributions to the health of women (unborn infants carrying the feminine XX chromosomes excluded), no one seems eager to discuss the organization’s origin or its racist founder, eugenics advocate, Margaret Sanger.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-sprinkle-010420-20200104-opc3c76o4na47mtdtun4nvqw3y-story.html


12 posted on 06/30/2020 4:30:39 AM PDT by Moonman62 (http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
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Stupidity is spreading...


13 posted on 06/30/2020 4:33:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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On a related note and a different woman...

DOMINIC LAWSON: First they came for the statues, now stained glass windows. Yet one woman's vile history is overlooked

14 posted on 06/30/2020 4:34:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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“If the ship is going down, I have no problem taking the likes of Wilson along with it.”

Why say that? Why grant an ounce of legitimacy to the cancel culture?


15 posted on 06/30/2020 4:48:50 AM PDT by odawg
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Hey sh!t-for-brains, it’a PIECE OF FURNITURE!


16 posted on 06/30/2020 4:49:55 AM PDT by trublu
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There seems to be a nation wide ‘biggest-idiot-governor’ contest


17 posted on 06/30/2020 4:51:43 AM PDT by wny
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That will help ! Thanks Gov!

See how much better that made everything?


18 posted on 06/30/2020 4:53:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING IT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF)
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There seems to be a nation wide ‘biggest-idiot-governor’ contest

They are just a reflection of the people who vote for them.

19 posted on 06/30/2020 4:55:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Glad to hear - this has ended systemic racism.

Oh, wait, you mean that didn’t end racism? Next!


20 posted on 06/30/2020 4:57:37 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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