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Art_from_Ark

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9. They were founders of the United States

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #6)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 11:29 PM

Oct 2013

Washington won the War for Independence. Jefferson drafted the document upon which the United States was founded, and still continues to be a source of inspiration. Both men were active in drafting a Constitution which, while originally containing racist elements, also made provisions so that those racist elements could be abolished, which they have been in the ensuing years. And both men were presidents during the critical early years of the United States. So of course they deserve to honored in such ways.

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KKK Battles Town Over School Bearing Klansman�s Name [View all] marmar Oct 2013 OP

I thought this would be about the Robert C Byrd High School. Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #1

I seem to recall Byrd renouncing his racist past. thucythucy Oct 2013 #3

"Forrest dissolved the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1869...." Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #5

And Adolph Eichmann told us at his trial thucythucy Oct 2013 #8

We have a whole county named after him in Miss. LuvNewcastle Oct 2013 #2

Can't believe it's still named that. gopiscrap Oct 2013 #4

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were racists who owned hundreds of slaves. Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #6

They were founders of the United States Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #9

We still have quite a few Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #7