A statue of Thomas Jefferson has raised the ire of student activists at Hofstra University, who are demanding that administrators remove his visage from campus.
JaLoni Amor, a Hofstra student and Black Lives Matter activist, released a petition calling for the statue’s removal on March 17, proclaiming that Jefferson has been embraced as an “icon” by “white supremacist and neo-nazi organizations” like the Ku Klux Klan.
“The Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center is one of the central points for on-campus life and student activities,” the petition reads.
“It is unfortunate then that a bronze sculpture of a 71-year-old Thomas Jefferson, gifted to the university by Hofstra Trustee David Mack, is right in front of the Student Center.”
“Jefferson has been embraced as an icon by white supremacist and neo-nazi organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan,” the petition continues, calling attention to Jefferson’s past as a slave owner who committed rape.
Shortly after, Amor created a Facebook event for an upcoming protest titled, “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!” slated for March 30. More than ten organizations are listed on the event’s flyer, including the Democrats of Hofstra University, Queer and Trans People of Color Coalition, The Gender Identity Federation, and Young Democratic Socialists of Hofstra.
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So if white supremacists embrace Einstein, does this mean you expect the college to stop teaching the theory of relativity?
ReplyDeleteThis is the thanks we get for sending these idiots to college free. They seem to be only capable of protest and lack of reasoning . Why don't they find the Africans that rounded up their ancestors ans sold them to the Spanish and tear their statues down.
ReplyDeleteHe's a symbol of freedom and the Fascists don't like that.
ReplyDeleteIgnorants can not recognize who helped write the freedoms they have to protest.
ReplyDeleteThey are really too stupid to live.
ReplyDeleteWould they prefer a statue of a REAL racist? Try their hero, Farrakhan.
Give it a rest. He was human.
ReplyDeleteDave T: No rest needed. But respect should be granted. He was a patriot, and though he may have been imperfect, we all are, and Jefferson singlehandedly has done far more for this country than all of the kooks gathered together in this protest combined!
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It means Talmudic Judaism has finally triumphed.
Either way, the statues represents a piece of history, and whether bitter or sweet, it is to be remembered for use on building our Future.
ReplyDeleteGet some sense in your heads!
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"The title of today’s entry is from an address made, April 29,1962, by President John F. Kennedy in welcoming a group of Nobel Prize winners to a dinner in their honor at The White House. The extended quote is: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
In the final 17 years of his life, Jefferson’s major accomplishment was the founding (1819) of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He conceived it, planned it, designed it, and supervised both its construction and the hiring of faculty. The university was the last of three contributions by which Jefferson wished to be remembered; they constituted a trilogy of interrelated causes: freedom from Britain, freedom of conscience, and freedom maintained through education. On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson died at Monticello.
https://pavellas.com/2008/10/08/when-thomas-jefferson-dined-alone/
Obviously Hofstra's admission requirements are now lower than whale poop, as evidenced by these students' complete inability to grasp anything about Jefferson except that he once owned slaves. The website at Monticello does not shrink from this and has a number of links and frank discussions about what is known about the life there.