The War on Jefferson—Is Franklin Next?
October 22, 2021
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The final decision, after years of debate, was made Oct. 8 to remove from the New York City Council chambers the statue of the man we all know to have been a dreaded slaveholder—to the tune of 600 over his lifetime—Thomas Jefferson Despite that, writing at Bari Weiss' substack, political science professor Samuel Goldman, with whom I concur, is less than happy.
"The removal is disgraceful. Unlike monuments to Confederate leaders that display them in full military glory, Jefferson is depicted as a writer.
Holding a quill pen in one hand and the Declaration of Independence in the other, he is clearly being honored for composing an immortal argument for liberty and equality." Who knows—perhaps Jefferson went to his grave wishing he could have married Sally, his slave with whom he apparently had children...
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It doesn't seem to matter that this woman, our new vice-president family were also slave owners
Like it or not we are all creatures of our times. Thomas Jefferson was clearly a hypocrite, often tortured by his own hypocrisy, but
he was also a genius whose writings offered great hope for humanity, all of humanity... Having been a professional writer all my life and having had the good fortune to know many fine authors, playwrights, and essayists, some "of color" even, I know not one who has written anything nearly as powerful and evocative as "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
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The truth about Jefferson seems to matter now, but now the truth about drug dealer/user, counterfeiter, armed robber, porn star, rapist and 5 times felon -George Floyd and many others doesn't seem to matter
Someone with a relatively healthy mind is able to put historical revelations in a context. Nothing appalls the "woke" more than that. They are always accusing the rest us of "contextualizing." But that is what adults do. We look at the past, evaluate it, try to take the best from it and avoid the worst, and move on. That is the way to observe George Santayana's dictum
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The left don't aim to remember the past. They aim to obliterate it. (https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/085/064/186/small/e3c4e22451bcabf3.png)
What will replace these statues? A statue of a negro long-time felon such as George Floyd now being peddled as a hero?
And thus they are condemned to repeat it. As they are now—in the United States of America—to everybody else's dismay and horror. Who will be the next to go? Benjamin Franklin—America's own DaVinci... Fortunately, in the case of
the Jefferson statue, it will not be destroyed, but removed to another location. (Wise move because these things often are walked back when people come to their senses.)
And it's not the original anyway, but a copy. The original is in the Capitol Rotunda, waiting for The Squad to complain about its presence and/or existence... (https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/075/820/885/small/6b9e14fb09c53425.png)
And of course these comments and many more, are being kept secret by the fake 'caring' media
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