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When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:38 pm
He was a slaveholder. Owned hundreds of slaves.
How do you explain to young minority Americans that their nation's capital is named for a white man that used to own people like them?
Rename it Columbia.
There has to be consistency, right? If you can't have statues honoring slaveholders then you can't have capitals honoring them.
Or is the line drawn at Confederate slaveholders, and American slaveholders are acceptable?
How do you explain to young minority Americans that their nation's capital is named for a white man that used to own people like them?
Rename it Columbia.
There has to be consistency, right? If you can't have statues honoring slaveholders then you can't have capitals honoring them.
Or is the line drawn at Confederate slaveholders, and American slaveholders are acceptable?
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Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:40 pm to LuckyTiger
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the line drawn at Confederate slaveholders, and American slaveholders are acceptable?
Well I certainly do find Confederate slaveholders more reprehensible from an American perspective. Patriot slaveholder>traitor slaveholder
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:41 pm to LuckyTiger
We need to check out anyone named District and Columbia also. Got to be thorough. I've already checked Of. No one by that name back then.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:41 pm to LuckyTiger
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Rename it Columbia.
The dude who started IT ALL?
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:42 pm to LuckyTiger
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Rename it Columbia.
Columbia comes from Christopher Columbus. He genocided all da coloreds back in the day, don't ya know.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:42 pm to inelishaitrust
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Well I certainly do find Confederate slaveholders more reprehensible from an American perspective. Patriot slaveholder>traitor slaveholder
Just curious if you understand that those patriots were also descendants of "traitors?"
or does that not count?
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:49 pm to LuckyTiger
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Rename it Columbia.
If Columbus had simply owned slaves he would have been a much better guy.
This post was edited on 6/5/17 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:50 pm to HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
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Just curious if you understand that those patriots were also descendants of "traitors?" or does that not count?
I mean if was British I might call them traitors, but I'm American so...
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:50 pm to LuckyTiger
Just rename it Kenner: America's City.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:51 pm to LuckyTiger
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Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:58 pm to LuckyTiger
Sodom-on-the-Potomac
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:01 pm to inelishaitrust
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Patriot slaveholder>traitor slaveholder
It's funny because of your fan emblem.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:02 pm to LuckyTiger
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There has to be consistency, right? If you can't have statues honoring slaveholders then you can't have capitals honoring them.
Meant to talk about this in my original post, but I forgot to. The biggest problem with Confederate memorialization is that it was done with the purpose of enforcing and lionizing White Supremacy. Washington is definitely problematic, but passively instead of actively so. The DOC and other groups created those statues to tell you that the south, slavery included, was right.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:05 pm to inelishaitrust
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problematic
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:07 pm to HempHead
I wish that word was illegal
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:47 pm to Tiguar
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I wish that word was illegal
You triggered, bro?
I could have easily said complicated. Problematic is just a little more appropriate.
It's important to remember that all of our heroes are human, and that some of our heroes aren't heroes.
This post was edited on 6/5/17 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:52 pm to LuckyTiger
Claim it's named after Booker T. and save millions on signage.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:54 pm to LuckyTiger
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When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?
Right after they rename the Redskins.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:55 pm to LuckyTiger
Rename it to Shithole.
I lived there for 5 years. It is the most accurate name possible.
I lived there for 5 years. It is the most accurate name possible.
This post was edited on 6/5/17 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:55 pm to LuckyTiger
quote:Indeed.
Rename it Columbia.
We can rename the Washington Monument the Mentula Magna (It's Latin).
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