re: When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?

I find it funny that so many people discuss the removal of confederate memorials. As I was leaving my farm yesterday I stopped by a small confederate cemetery a few miles away. It was pristine. Grass mowed, no weeds or vines, no damaged or missing headstones.

And this is in Sumter county Alabama. While Sumter county is sparsely populated it has one of the highest number of black people. There is an elderly black man who lives next to the cemetery who came over when he saw me to see what I was doing. I remarked on the grass being cut and he said he kept it that way. When I asked him why he did that for these confederates he replied they were dead and had never done anything to him. And when he died he hoped someone would take care of his grave.

The graveyard is in Gainesville, I understand that is where Nathan Bedford Forrest surrendered. Just prior to his surrender his men tossed a cannon into the the Tombigbee river to keep it out of union hands. Years later it was recovered fro the river by the citizens of Gainesville and placed into the cemetery. The graves of the men there were injured at the battle of Shiloh and sent there to a local hospital.

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Rename it Columbia.

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Columbus was responsible for the Raping of the American Indianans.....

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What year did Andrew Jackson join the Confederacy?

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he didn't

and thus, Jackson Square stands firmly

Yes. The word legitimately triggers me. It's used by self righteous queers with little frame of reference in human history.

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Well I certainly do find Confederate slaveholders more reprehensible from an American perspective. Patriot slaveholder>traitor slaveholder

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So tell me...when they decided that Andrew Jackson's statue had to come down too....what was the reasoning for that?

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not going to happen

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He was a slaveholder. In saving New Orleans, he fought to preserve slavery. For Brits, slavery was illegal. The statue must come down. /s

Obamaville

"If we tear down four statues, then what about everything ever?" - message board child melting

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When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?
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?

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I certainly would be completely indifferent if they changed it. Wouldn't you? The cult of Washington is too much in this country (and I love Washington.)