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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that things named after President Thomas Jefferson should be renamed because that’s the “right thing to do.”

Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who became the rising star of the 2020 Democratic primary, echoed the far-left calls to rename buildings or events that carry the names of prominent U.S. figures on the grounds that they were owners of slaves.

The mayor was asked during "The Hugh Hewitt Show" on radio whether the name of the annual Indiana Democratic dinner, named the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, should be renamed as both presidents were holders of slaves.

“Yeah, we're doing that in Indiana. I think it's the right thing to do,” Buttigieg said, according to the Washington Free Beacon. He then offered a tepid defense of the Founding Father while agreeing that events shouldn’t be named after him.

“Over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor … Jefferson is more problematic,” he said.”

“There's a lot, of course, to admire in his thinking and his philosophy, but then again if you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew slavery was wrong. We are all morally conflicted human beings.”

 

But while Jefferson shouldn’t be erased from history books, Buttigieg says events shouldn’t be named after him.

 

“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,” he said.

“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.”

 

Yet he hasn't called for Northam to resign.

 
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Jack Hammer posted:
There's nothing more hypocritical than a flaming liberal/demo holier 
than thou nauseating liberal hypocrite trying to crush the Christian
religion so as to move in sharia law to replace our Constitution and 
take over this country.

 

You can't be this ignorant. Republicans are replacing our Constitution with Sharia Law... they've just rebranded it as Christian Law. Same laws, just a different brown deity.

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The next thing this guy will be wanting to do is to tear down the Jefferson memorial.   These folks are going after people who did nothing wrong or even taboo for the time that they lived and in the society that they lived in.  It's looking back and applying todays norms and rules to other times even though in the times when those people lived there wasn't anything wrong or bad about what they were doing.  You also are hearing many, if not all, of the Democrat candidates endorsing and calling for Reparations to be paid account of slavary even though there are no slaves or children of slaves alive today.  It's just placating to anyone that they believe may help them get elected.

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