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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tha Post writes they demonstrated at UVA at a statue of Thomas Jefferson. What is the relevance of that location to the demonstrators? [/quote]
Thomas jefferson was a huge racist who owned slaves [/quote]
Didn't all the rich people have them?[/quote]

Uh, no there were these people called abolitionists. It was racist to own people as property. Thomas Jefferson not excepted. [/quote]
Thomas Jefferson is an interesting study in contradiction. He called slavery a "moral depravity" and a "hideous blot" while working on legislation to free them. Yet he owned hundreds of slaves himself and only freed them in his will. The link below provides some insight.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Reassessing-Thomas-Jefferson/240440
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Hypocrisy. [/quote]
Also interesting on Jefferson:
[url]https://www.pbs.org/jefferson/archives/interviews/Finkelman.htm[/url][/quote]

This has nothing at all to do with white supremacist terrorists in 2017.
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It may if the trend to remove statues continues with Jefferson[/quote]
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