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Buttkreig: Remove Jackson, Jefferson Problematic


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2019 May 17, 12:26pm   654 views  2 comments

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HUGH HEWITT: Let’s go to policy now. A very blunt question because you talk about going to every Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Indiana when you were running statewide. Should Jefferson-Jackson dinners be renamed everywhere because both were holders of slaves?

MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG: Yeah, we’re doing that in Indiana. I think it’s the right thing to do. You know, over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor. And I think we know enough, especially Jackson, you know, you just look at what basically amounts to genocide that happened here. Jefferson’s more problematic. You know, there’s a lot to, of course, admire in his thinking and his philosophy. Then again, as you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew that slavery was wrong.

HEWITT: Yes.
BUTTIGIEG: And yet, he did. Now, we are all morally conflicted human beings. It’s not like we’re blotting him our of the history books or deleting him from being the founding fathers. But, naming something after somebody confers a certain amount of honor. The real reason I think there is a lot of pressure on this is the relationship between the past and present that we’re finding in a million different ways that racism isn’t some curiosity out of the past that we’re embarrassed about but moved on from. It’s alive, it’s well, it’s hurting people and it’s one of the main reasons to be in politics today is to try to change or reverse the harms that went along with that. We better find ways to live out and honor that principle.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/17/pete-buttigieg-erasing-thomas-jeffersons-name-right-thing-to-do/

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1   Shaman   2019 May 17, 12:29pm  

And the Democrats would love to erase the fact that Jackson was the founder of the Democrat party.
2   HeadSet   2019 May 17, 1:21pm  

Quigley says
And the Democrats would love to erase the fact that Jackson was the founder of the Democrat party.


Actually the Democratic Party was founded by Jefferson as Democratic-Republican, but renamed to Democrat under Jackson. Another prominent Democrat was Jefferson Davis, who led the Confederacy.

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