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I Am American (southern)

im watching an episode of switched at birth where the black students at a college due to racism. they have some reaonable demands and some kinda crazy but one that sticks out in my mind. is demanding a building being renamed cause it was named for a slave owner. its crazy if we renamed every building or place named for slave owners or had a slave owners name on it. we would be renaming several monuments, colleges including a black college, airports, hospitals etc.

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FunJennyGurl · T

Uhhhmmm, did I not read somewhere about Thomas Jefferson and his slaves and how he fathered some children by a slave? Why not stop at confederate monuments? We need to erase the history of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington to start with because they owned slaves if we are being politically correct.

Slavery is history. No one is due reparations and we should not be erasing selective history. There were as many slaves in the north and was in the south.

Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F

@FunJennyGurl: and the blacks tend to forget that almost every miniority in the us has been mistreated at one time or another by the federal government. some was even worse than slavery