Comment by Diana on August 18, 2017 at 5:13pm

12 presidents and Benjamin Franklin owned slaves, so we have a lot of cleaning up to do just in that group.  The Federal Reserve has to reissue a lot of money too.  Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, a slave trader, so that will have to changed as well.  That Washington Monument has got to go also.  New York was named after the Duke of York who was a slave trader and a close friend of William Penn.  So we better take a hard look at Pennsylvania.  Washington Duke, who Duke University is named after also owned slaves.  And the enslavement of people by Christopher Columbus was way over the top.  There is a start and by the time all of this injustice is fixed, we will find plenty more.

Comment by Kim Smith on August 19, 2017 at 3:32pm

The entire racist monument must go. T.R. was an avowed racist and war criminal 

https://iwpchi.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/the-rise-of-u-s-imperialism...

https://southernsentinel.wordpress.com/lincolnwas-a-war-criminal/

Lincoln was also an avowed racist and war criminal who engineered "Shermans march to the sea" where a scorched earth policy was enacted and rape of any southern woman so desired.General Sherman‘s “March to the Sea” was nothing more than a marauding rampage filled with robbery, rape, and murder. These men were less soldiers on a military mission and more common thugs on a crime spree. Northern armies brought war to women, children, and privately held property as a matter of official policy (rather than as so-called “collateral damage”).

Which is exactly how the wars we are currently involved in are being run today.

Any other monuments to those fascist thugs should also be destroyed.

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