Thomas Jefferson statue removed from New York City hall

[Koba St]

Cacs fuming in the comment section yet again

 

[8WON6]

No doubt it's the people that think "CRT...teaching about slavery is teaching hate" that are mad about a slave master statue being removed.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Make em made on this great holiday

 

[concise]

Council Critic of 3rd President Gets Seat in Jefferson's Shadow (Published 2006)

Jan. 19, 2006

Correction Appended


Councilman Charles Barron has long objected to a life-size statue of Thomas Jefferson prominently displayed in the City Council chamber, saying the founding father was a "white, slave-owning pedophile."


So when his assigned seat was moved across the room yesterday, right next to the statue, the point was hardly lost on Mr. Barron, a black Brooklyn Democrat. "That's my punishment for acting up, practicing democracy," he said.


During the last Council meeting, Mr. Barron criticized the new speaker, Christine C. Quinn, for her close relations to county political bosses. He was the only one of the 51 members who did not vote for Ms. Quinn for speaker, choosing to abstain.


In response, Ms. Quinn did not strip Mr. Barron of his position as chairman of the Higher Education Committee, as many Council members had expected. Instead, she merely moved Mr. Barron next to the statue, widely seen as a more subtle form of retaliation.

 

[Nymbus]

take em away boys

 

[tuckgod]

Perfect timing

 

[killacal]

No doubt it's the people that think "CRT...teaching about slavery is teaching hate" that are mad about a slave master statue being removed.

They don't see owning slaves as a wrong so a great man is being taken down for no reason to them

 

[Pimp]

I don't think they should do it.. In 200 years they gonna do the same thing to the people of today because in 200 years what we're doing now will not be acceptable.

How is 2021 any different. You're still slaves

 

[Mowgli]

Cacs and their idols. Hopefully they don't replace it with an idol for us.

 

[TL15]

Cuz it’s 187 on that racist ass prop

 

[ImLionyall]

Stan ppl who own people in the land of the free, brehs.

 

[ORDER_66]

good

 

[Ziggiy]

He was a slave owning rapist. Whats the problem?

 

[Stone Cold]

Anything but reparations huh

 

[Luke Cage]

Crazy part is white people for some reason were never big fans of 2nd president John Adams, because he was a single term president and seen as a loser to history.
But he was also a staunch abolitionist. His son too,( represented the amistad as legal council.) his legacy ages much better than the other founding fathers. and is also prove against the argument, "thats just how things were back then." No you a president telling you it was wrong. no excuses for anyone.