I’m not sure if these progressive activists know how uneducated they look and sound?
We demand that you stop honoring both those who fought to preserve the institution of Black bondage as well as those who profited from it. Instead, we demand that homage is paid to those who died in the quest to free themselves from from the hands of those sought to keep them as laborers never as citizens and as property not as people.
— Petition
Not like it matters.
Of course, the one small detail these activists ALWAYS leave out is “those who fought to preserve the institution of Black bondage” were Democrats and “those who died in the quest to free themselves from from the hands of those sought to keep them as laborers” were Republicans.
But in a coordinated attempt to call all who oppose them as racists, the so-called educated are now lecturing the rest of the nation and demanding we eradicate the names of prominent Democrats who fought until the 1960s to keep blacks in their place.
The whitewashing of their racist legacy continues to this day.
7/23/18: Residents of Valdosta want Forrest Street changed to Obama
7/18/18: Peter Faneuil Hall Name Change? Some Want It Because Of Slavery Ties
7/18/18: FSU is removing a statue of its slave-owning founder Francis Eppes
7/17/18: Charlottesville parks, once named for Confederate generals, to change names again
7/11/18: After $20K donation, 3 Petersburg schools change Confederate names
7/2/18: IDEA John T. Allan school sheds name after learning of Confederate origin
6/28/18: Should area school named after ‘Little House’ author Laura Ingalls Wilder get a new name?
6/23/18: Alexandria strips Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s name from highway
5/30/18: Petition Circulated To Change John L. Hadley Park To Malcolm X Park
5/26/18: Student cites slave owner legacy in effort to change the name of James Madison High School
5/22/18: Slave ownership stops John Walden Meyers Secondary name change
5/21/18: Students and Community leaders speak in support of changing the name of Robert E. Lee High
5/21/18: Feds change the name of Confederate Corners on Highway 68 to Springtown
5/17/18: Movement would rename St. Paul school named for slave-owning president James Monroe
5/4/18: This DC school was named for Benjamin Grayson Orr, a mayor and slave owner. Not anymore.
4/26/18: Boston Changes ‘Yawkey Way’ To ‘Jersey Street’ After Concerns Over Racist Legacy
2/28/18: Brookline Will Change Name Of School Named For Edward Devotion, Slave Owner
2/2/18: Georgia Senate votes unanimously to rename Runaway Negro Creek
1/24/18: School Board renames Jefferson Davis MS after slave, Revolutionary War hero from Hampton
1/19/18: Minnesota lake named for pro-slavery Calhoun gets new name
1/19/18: Virginia School Named for Confederate General Changed to Barack Obama Elementary
11/27/17: Berkeley school will no longer be named for slave owner Joseph Le Conte, board decides
11/21/17: Confederate Motors officially announces name change
11/13/17: AISD moves to rename remaining schools with Confederate ties by August
8/31/17: New Paltz’s founding families were slaveholders; should names be stricken from college buildings?
8/27/17: Stockton University removes bust of slave owner Richard Stockton
8/18/17: Temple student wants Philly to rename Roger B. Taney Street after Mo’ne Davis
8/14/17: Jacksonville City Council president calls for Confederate memorials to be moved off public property
8/4/17: Change the name of Sienna Plantation
5/18/17: Slave-owning, KKK-supporting namesake of Wade Hampton High sparks name-change controversy
4/26/17: New Orleans begins controversial removal of Confederate monuments
4/11/17: Echoes of slave-owning past bring change to Rice’s college masters
2/11/17: Yale changes name of building honoring slave owner John C. Calhoun
2/10/17: Rutgers proposes renaming parts of campus after former slaves
10/13/16: Residents strongly urge city to rename Third Ward Lt. Richard Dowling St. Emancipation Avenue
10/12/16: City Council minority group urges NYCHA to remove names of slave-owner from public housing
9/28/16: Wade Hampton no more: Alaska census area honoring Confederate officer is renamed
9/8/16: San Francisco school board president calls for the renaming of schools tied to slavery
2/25/16: Harvard abolishes ‘master’ in titles in slavery row
1/10/16: Local historian likely to withdraw Gen. William Saffold street name change request
11/23/15: Princeton students demand removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from buildings
7/14/15: Group calls for removal of Confederate monument in Portsmouth
7/9/15: UC Berkeley students call for renaming of campus buildings tied to Confederacy
7/8/15: DC Residents Say Washington Needs To Change Name To ‘Black City’
4/17/09: Brown Should Consider Christopher Columbus Name Change Due to Slave Ties, Critics Say
11/13/97: School Changes Name From George Washington Because He Owned Slaves
This is by no means a complete list but you’ll note on EVERY media “name change” report, the word “Democrat” appears virtually nowhere and we all know if just one of these slave owners were a Republican, his name would be in the headline of every story in all caps and Republicans today would be hunted down to publicly denounce their party’s inhuman legacy of deadly oppression.
We won’t get into the taught-sheer ignorance of those doing the protesting and the desperation of others still insisting the Republicans are now the racists and Democrats are the enlightened. If that’s the case, why the continuation of historical revisionism to the liberal simples and omission of the party affiliation of Confederates that would require a public explanation?
Again a sad indictment on the Republican Party whose founders opposed slavery while their modern day descendants appear too sheepish to remind progressive exploiters of their obvious murderous, racist place in American history.