Sharpton Targets the Jefferson Memorial

from Liberty Headlines, in part)

(Matthew Vadum, Bombthrowers.com) Racial arsonist Al Sharpton is demanding the federal government shut down the historic Jefferson Memorial in the nation’s capital because the long-dead president honored by the monument owned slaves.

Al Sharpton Photo by Elvert Barnes

Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, the man who wrote the justly revered Declaration of Independence, is also the man who penned this noble sentence: “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Perhaps he was thinking of future Al Sharptons when he wrote it.

Boiled down, this is a case where one of the most important, heroic, inspirational, intellectually robust, accomplished, and beloved figures in American history is under assault by one of the most repulsive, cowardly, sociopathic, intellectually deficient, unaccomplished, and despised figures in American history.

It was President John F. Kennedy who said at a White House dinner honoring a cohort of Nobel Prize winners from across the Western hemisphere:

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

“Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, and dance the minuet,” Kennedy said April 29, 1962.  (…)

You should really go and read the whole article!

I’ve stated before, I believe in this Republic, warts and all!

We need to recognize previous generations, their leaders, generals and Presidents trying to make this nation survive, were living within the confines of their times.  General Grant owned slaves; General Lee did not.  Yet both were men of honor.  Jefferson was a genius who more than doubled the size of the United States and her territories.  And yes, he owned slaves, and may have fathered children with one (there is evidence it might have been one of his brothers!)

Let’s stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater!

Recognize them for their accomplishments, but remember their mistakes.

Kennedy was a womanizer and drug user.  Johnson fathered an illegitimate child.  Jackson committed genocide against certain Indian tribes, but fought afterward to give then aid.  But kept the Republic budget balanced, and with no debt and no national bank!

Erasing history is anathema!