Now they're taking down statues of Thomas Jefferson

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Who? He looks familiar but once that statue came down I could no longer put my finger on who he was. Almost like it was erased.
 
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You know that guy who drafted the American Declaration of Independence as part of the Continental Congress, our first Secretary of State as a new nation, and third President of the U.S. I wonder what or who is next in this huge push to tear apart the very foundations of this country and Democracy itself.[/QUOTE]

Is anyone surprised by this?

Such nonsense running rampant...
 
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...tue-removed-after-commission-vote/8529649002/

You know that guy who drafted the American Declaration of Independence as part of the Continental Congress, our first Secretary of State as a new nation, and third President of the U.S. I wonder what or who is next in this huge push to tear apart the very foundations of this country and Democracy itself.
“It is a piece of public art. It is under our jurisdiction. And we need to be thoughtful about where it should go,” said board president Signe Nielson.

A group of historians including Sean Wilentz, author of books including “No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding,” argued in a letter to the Public Design Commission that the statue should be moved to the Governor's Room in City Hall, its original home. The statue has been in the City Council chamber since 1915.

“Locating the statue for viewing in the Governor’s Room, where it was originally placed and apparently stood for much of its history, would be the most reasonable compromise,” the historians wrote.


Sounds like a good plan to me.
 
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You know that guy who drafted the American Declaration of Independence as part of the Continental Congress, our first Secretary of State as a new nation, and third President of the U.S. I wonder what or who is next in this huge push to tear apart the very foundations of this country and Democracy itself.

Considering he was a slave owner and seems to also have been a rapist this is hardly surprising. I in fact thought most people had a negative opinion of him but that just shows my own bubble.
 
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I'm not going to be very surprised if Mount Rushmore gets refaced.
Whose faces would be resculpted onto the mountain? Or would they just blow it all up?
 
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I'm not going to be very surprised if Mount Rushmore gets refaced.
Too late.

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You know that guy who drafted the American Declaration of Independence as part of the Continental Congress, our first Secretary of State as a new nation, and third President of the U.S. I wonder what or who is next in this huge push to tear apart the very foundations of this country and Democracy itself.
They are moving one, at least. Don’t you ever change the art in your house?
 
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You know that guy who drafted the American Declaration of Independence as part of the Continental Congress, our first Secretary of State as a new nation, and third President of the U.S. I wonder what or who is next in this huge push to tear apart the very foundations of this country and Democracy itself.

I have this genetic problem. It was passed on by my mother I think. There's no cure - I've just had to adjust the way I live to accomodate it. It makes life a lot less easier but I manage. It's an inability to see things in black and white.

And I can see that others do have that ability. And life seems so much simpler for them. So it's frustrating...but it's a cross I'll have to bear.
 
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Whose faces would be resculpted onto the mountain? Or would they just blow it all up?
Right now they are just talking about adding one. I have heard suggestions, but don't remember them all, I'm thinking Obama, Dr Martin Luther King (not a president, I know), Kennedy, FDR maybe?
 
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Right now they are just talking about adding one. I have heard suggestions, but don't remember them all, I'm thinking Obama, Dr Martin Luther King (not a president, I know), Kennedy, FDR maybe?

Alfred E. Neuman?
 
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Right now they are just talking about adding one. I have heard suggestions, but don't remember them all, I'm thinking Obama, Dr Martin Luther King (not a president, I know), Kennedy, FDR maybe?
Not a president but I could see MLK. None of the rest of them. Oh, and I'm sure other people would suggest Reagan or Eisenhower or somebody without a D attached to their name. My own opinion is that just like Catholic saints, who are not named for a long time after they died, we should wait.
 
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