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DrafterX Offline
#1 Posted:
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New York activist Al Sharpton offered an emotional and personal case calling for the federal government to halt funding to Washington, D.C.'s Jefferson Memorial.

Sharpton said America's third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence had several slaves.

His iconic round-roofed memorial sits on the edge of Potomac River- the first of several monuments lining Washington's Ohio Drive.

Sharpton also noted how Jefferson is said to have fathered a child with a slave named Sally Hemings.

"People need to understand that people were enslaved," Sharpton told PBS' Charlie Rose.

He said that his great-grandfather was a slave who was owned by an ancestor of former Sen. J. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.).

"Our families were victims of this," he said. "Public monuments [to people like Jefferson] are supported by public funds."

"You're asking me to subsidize the insult to my family," Sharpton said, adding that private museums were preferable to federally-funded monuments to slaveholders.

Sharpton added that President Trump "had laryngitis for two days" on the issue of condemning white supremacist violence in Jefferson's hometown of Charlottesville.

Film at 11... Mellow
frankj1 Offline
#2 Posted:
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oddly enough, Robert E. Lee's relative suggested a similar solution
ZRX1200 Offline
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Wouldn't Al have to PAY taxes first to be outraged?
Ewok126 Offline
#4 Posted:
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DrafterX wrote:
New York activist Al Sharpton offered an emotional and personal case calling for the federal government to halt funding to Washington, D.C.'s Jefferson Memorial.

Sharpton said America's third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence had several slaves.

His iconic round-roofed memorial sits on the edge of Potomac River- the first of several monuments lining Washington's Ohio Drive.

Sharpton also noted how Jefferson is said to have fathered a child with a slave named Sally Hemings.

"People need to understand that people were enslaved," Sharpton told PBS' Charlie Rose.

He said that his great-grandfather was a slave who was owned by an ancestor of former Sen. J. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.).

"Our families were victims of this," he said. "Public monuments [to people like Jefferson] are supported by public funds."

"You're asking me to subsidize the insult to my family," Sharpton said, adding that private museums were preferable to federally-funded monuments to slaveholders.

Sharpton added that President Trump "had laryngitis for two days" on the issue of condemning white supremacist violence in Jefferson's hometown of Charlottesville.

Film at 11... Mellow



I typically refuse to post or read in these types of debates but when does it become asinine. Hey here is an idea, Why dont we stop all funding to UVA since Jefferson was the founder of that. **** we do not need one of the top medical educational facilities in the US especially since that ass hole built it. But hey it was founded by Thomas Jefferson and he owned slaves, We dont give a **** about the people that are being treated and living longer lives because of what "THAT MAN" started. Nor do we need to remember any thing good that he might have done so lets jerk down his monuments as well. We going to pick out one bad bad thing and that is it lets condemn condemn condemn. Sharpton has forgot one thing. " Let the man without sin cast the first stone" Last I heard there is not a person on this planet that can do that if following by that rule I dont care what race, creed, or belief I,You, Or them might have or be. I can find something wrong even with the best things in life. If I look hard enough **** I could find a pineapple offensive. So lets go beat the **** out of all the pineapple farmers, lets burn down all the companies that sale pineapple. Hell lets take up arms and go to every ones house that supports the pineapple by buying their products in support of these farmers and sh*t... Sounds like another TV reality show to me. The US as a whole on both sides have become a Jerry Springer, phuked up, kitty whipped, mickey mouse version of itself. We are Idiots, Resistance is Futile, Next thing you know everyone is idiots and I hate to brake it to anyone but we already have been assimilated. Just watch more news or read over some of the latest post in these forums you will see, that is if you have not been assimilated yet.

Now off my soapbox for another few years. Peace Anxious
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Wouldn't Al have to PAY taxes first to be outraged?



RIGHT????? That's EXACTLY what somebody needs to say to that SOB...

Hey AL....when you get " current " with the IRS, we'll look into how YOUR taxes are spent!!!!!
delta1 Offline
#6 Posted:
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Hey ewok...you know that "pineapple" is a racial slur, right? So, you didn't really mean that, right? Caution...Duterte is sending a hitman, as we type...


Just messing with you brother...

Ewok126 Offline
#7 Posted:
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delta1 wrote:
Hey ewok...you know that "pineapple" is a racial slur, right? So, you didn't really mean that, right? Caution...Duterte is sending a hitman, as we type...


Just messing with you brother...




lol damn, at first I was like wtf is another term for Pineapple. Quit mucking with the stroke guy dude. lmaoooo Applause Applause Applause
delta1 Offline
#8 Posted:
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hey, I've been called a banana...you can use that one without offending anyone...ThumpUp
DrafterX Offline
#9 Posted:
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I've been called an Apple before... by dudes leaning on their Firebirds and F-150s jamming Led Zepplin.. go figure.. Mellow
delta1 Offline
#10 Posted:
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ummmm.....you sure they weren't talking about your shape?

..I knew when I was called a banana they weren't talking about my rice rocket...
Ewok126 Offline
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delta1 wrote:
hey, I've been called a banana...you can use that one without offending anyone...ThumpUp


lol yeah I think that one is ok, well unless you just say "you Fruit" then it could be misconstrued as something else like (tinker bell or Pansy) but if I call someone a Banana they might think I am calling them something Phallic then they get all butt hurt and really become a Di*K Anxious Anxious Anxious
opelmanta1900 Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
I've been called an Apple before...

They were probably saying a**hole with a speech impedement...
Ewok126 Offline
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
They were probably saying a**hole with a speech impedement...


Laugh Laugh Laugh LOL LOL LOL


DrafterX Offline
#14 Posted:
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delta1 wrote:
ummmm.....you sure they weren't talking about your shape?

..I knew when I was called a banana they weren't talking about my rice rocket...



Red on the outside, white on the inside... American Indian insult... I told them all their scalps were from women and dogs.. Mellow
delta1 Offline
#15 Posted:
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I know the pejorative meaning of Apple...but you are kinda apple shaped,...you know... broad shoulders and tapered waist/hips...kinda like that Chief character on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
DrafterX Offline
#16 Posted:
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it's an Indian thing.. Mellow
Ewok126 Offline
#17 Posted:
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delta1 wrote:
I know the pejorative meaning of Apple...but you are kinda apple shaped,...you know... broad shoulders and tapered waist/hips...kinda like that Chief character on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...



Ahh so kind of like "Muffin Top"?
delta1 Offline
#18 Posted:
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apple cinnamon muffin...yummmm
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