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Jayb's avatar

I think Eugene Robinson says it perfectly in his op ed in today's Washington Post:

"There is an obvious difference between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who founded our union, and, say, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, who tried to destroy it. The fact that Washington, Jefferson and other early presidents owned slaves should temper our admiration for them but not erase it entirely. They gave us a nation grotesquely disfigured by slavery, but they also gave us the constitutional tools, and the high-minded ideals, with which to heal that original, near-fatal flaw."

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Nicholas Sevilla's avatar

One thing we absolutely need to do is to recognize and then eliminate what the Daughters Of The Confederacy did, in the beginning of the 20th century. Read up on them. They not only erected most of these Confederate statues, they also rewrote schoolbooks. Their work needs to be put in a museum, as a warning to not allow this sort of racist propaganda to ever see the lightnof day again.

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