Revisionist history has students at University of Missouri claiming that Thomas Jefferson was a racist and a rapist. Because of this historical deception, some students are demanding that the Jefferson statue be removed from the campus.
Read on page two the lengths at which the students have gone to have the statue removed.
stupid, young people are sooooo brainwashed it is not even funny
maybe they need to put their time towards studying history instead of trying to change it
How about removing the students who want the statue removed.
Look. You can complain all you want and nothing is going to change. This is a well orchestrated take over of the United States of America. There is nothing that can be done. The military has been down sized so low that it can not stop it. The military commanders that have been put in charge are in on it. The congress, both democrats and republicans are in on it. That is why Obama gets away with whatever he wants too. It is too late. I am sorry to say. This is the end of America that was once the greatest and most powerful country in the world. It is no ones fault but our own that we elected the sorry men and women that ran our country into the ground. So, save your breathe screaming about what should be down to fix it. No one is listening. They are all just laughing at us just like the rest of the world is laughing at us. Our country has been destroyed. If you do not believe this you are a total fool. The only thing that we can do to protect our children and grandchildren and the future generations is to stand up and fight for our country and take it back .
Really how many things are we to give up .
Lol these people don’t realize they are Hippocrates
Idiots.
Nation of morons , where are they getting all of this BS,
enough already
The complex relationship between Thomas Jefferson and slavery has been extensively studied and debated by his biographers and by scholars of slavery.[1] Throughout his life, Jefferson owned hundreds of African-American slaves acquired by inheritance, marriage, births of slaves, and trade.[2][3][4] Starting in 1767 at the age of twenty-one, Jefferson inherited 5,000 acres of land and fifty-two slaves by his father’s will. In 1768 Jefferson began construction of his Monticello plantation. Through his marriage to Martha Wayles in 1772 and his father-in-law John Wayles inheritance in 1773 Jefferson inherited two plantations and 135 slaves. By 1776 Jefferson was one of the largest planters in Virginia. However, the value of his property (land and slaves) was increasingly offset by his growing debts, which made it very difficult to free his slaves and thereby lose them as assets.[5]
In his writings on American grievances justifying the Revolution, he attacked the British for sponsoring the slave trade to the colonies. In 1778, with Jefferson’s leadership, slave importation was banned in Virginia. It was one of the first jurisdictions in the world to ban the slave trade. Jefferson was a lifelong advocate of ending the trade and as President led the effort to criminalize the international slave trade that passed Congress and he signed on March 2, 1807; it took effect in 1808. Britain independently made the same move on March 25, 1807.
In 1779, as a practical solution to end slavery Jefferson supported gradual emancipation, training, and colonization of African-American slaves rather than unconditional manumission, believing that releasing unprepared slaves with no place to go and no means to support themselves would only bring them misfortune. In 1784 Jefferson proposed federal legislation banning slavery in the New Territories of the North and South after 1800, which failed to pass Congress by one vote.[6][7] In his Notes on the State of Virginia, published in 1785, Jefferson expressed the beliefs that slavery corrupted both masters and slaves alike, supported colonization of freed slaves, suspected that African-Americans were inferior in intelligence, and that emancipating large numbers of slaves made slave uprisings more likely.[8] In 1794 and 1796 Jefferson manumitted by deed two of his male slaves; they had been trained and were qualified to hold employment.