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mk · 1159 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thomas Jefferson statue coming down in New York's City Council chamber : NPR
George Washington thought blacks were inferior to whites and he owned slaves. If Jefferson comes down, then we must bring down George too. Freeing your slaves after you die doesn't really cut it, does it? If we can only honor people in the whole, then we are trapped in a lie. I would guess some of those council members voted to reelect Barack Obama after he escalated the murder of innocents in Afghanistan. But that's excusable among them for now.