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When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?

Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:38 pm
Posted by LuckyTiger
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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?
Posted by inelishaitrust
Oxford, MS
Member since Jan 2008
26079 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:40 pm to
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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 by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
54260 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:41 pm to
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 by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
101996 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:41 pm to
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Rename it Columbia.


The dude who started IT ALL?
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112793 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:42 pm to
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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 by Haughton99
Haughton
Member since Feb 2009
6124 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:49 pm to
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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 by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:50 pm to
Just rename it Kenner: America's City.
Posted by Kingpenm3
Xanadu
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Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:51 pm to
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
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Posted on 6/5/17 at 1:58 pm to
Sodom-on-the-Potomac
Posted by inelishaitrust
Oxford, MS
Member since Jan 2008
26079 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:02 pm to
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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 by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:52 pm to
Claim it's named after Booker T. and save millions on signage.
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58409 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:54 pm to
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When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?


Right after they rename the Redskins.
Posted by Loserman
Member since Sep 2007
22027 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:55 pm to
Rename it to Shithole.

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 by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
124706 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:55 pm to
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Rename it Columbia.
Indeed.
We can rename the Washington Monument the Mentula Magna (It's Latin).
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:55 pm to
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When Are We Going To Rename Washington DC?


It's all a part of the plan don't worry. One step at a time

Once the founding fathers are demonized we can't respect their legislation either, and the constitution will have to be rethought because:
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How do you explain to young minority Americans that their nation's...


With the right to free speech and right to bear arms gone the transition to globalism will be much easier to force on the American people
This post was edited on 6/5/17 at 3:00 pm
Posted by Mr. Blutarski
Hattiesburg, MS
Member since Oct 2012
1773 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 3:00 pm to
Marionville like or Berrytown
Posted by alphaandomega
Tuscaloosa-Here to Serve
Member since Aug 2012
13780 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 3:01 pm to
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.
Posted by Machine
Earth
Member since May 2011
6001 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 3:02 pm to
quote:

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?

and what year did he join the Confederacy?
Posted by tigeraddict
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2007
11882 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 3:04 pm to
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Rename it Columbia.


Columbus was responsible for the Raping of the American Indianans.....
Posted by Quarterite
The Lower Quarter
Member since Oct 2016
959 posts
Posted on 6/5/17 at 3:25 pm to
If our brain-dead president gets his way, it'll be known as tRumpopolis for ever more.
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