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Title: Jefferson Memorial update will acknowledge slave owner record
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URL Source: https://www.aol.com/article/news/20 ... e-slave-owner-record/23156093/
Published: Aug 22, 2017
Author: AOL
Post Date: 2017-08-22 20:13:52 by nolu chan
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Views: 3224
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Jefferson Memorial update will acknowledge slave owner record Aug 21st 2017 1:52PM Thomas Jefferson’s memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is getting an update to include that he was a slave owner. The Trust for the National Mall, which is dedicated to restoring, improving and preserving the National Mall, said they will update the third president’s exhibit amid a national debate on the status of over 1,500 Confederate monuments following the Charlottesville tragedy concerning a statue of Robert E. Lee.
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#6. To: AOL@AOL, nolu chan, forum SJWs (#0)
All but four of the presidents before Lincoln and both of the presidents after him owned or inherited slaves. (12 out of 18, I believe) Should we revise all historical monuments in the USA to include all of the dirty details of history just so some SJWs will be able to sleep better in their onesie or romper at night? Maybe they should start chiseling away at Mt Rushmore while they are at it...
That begs the question... are there any statues of Martin Luther King around? I understand his personal life was somewhat short of sainthood quality.
#10. To: Pinguinite, nolu chan (#8)
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They put one up on the Mall in D.C., privately funded some years back. Wiki: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Created by a Chinese sculptor with Chinese laborers (who didn't get paid) and from Chinese stone quarried under inhumane conditions, there were many complaints that the laborers were exploited and that American labor and American stone should have been used. The Chinese sculptor had a career of producing Mao Tse Tung statues for the Chinese commies and many people think that this MLK statue looks a lot like Mao. There were complaints that the King family tried to get big payoffs from the memorial fund to use his words and likeness. Sounds like they made a million or more but I have no exact numbers or good reporting. And it does look more like Mao than MLK to me. USAtoday: MLK Jr. memorial confronts controversy, 2011
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#8. To: TheFireBert (#6)
Should we revise all historical monuments in the USA to include all of the dirty details of history just so some SJWs will be able to sleep better in their onesie or romper at night?
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Well, most every major city has a MLK boulevard with some hideous MLK statue, generally unrecognizable as MLK because the quality of the work is so awful.
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