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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime to rename the "Jefferson-Jackson" dinners?
After all, if we want the Dixie Swastika to come down, the argument can be made we have to hold OUR party to the same standards. How much does what this party stands for now, and aspires to achieve for the future, still relate, in any meaningful sense, to slave-owners and slaughterers of Native Americans?
Also...if you want the dinners renamed, what alternative names would you suggest?
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PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)Jefferson is the fucking founder of the party for Christ's sake. He was a great man, a brilliant man and as instrumental in the founding of this country as anyone. Why not rename the party? Why not rename the country? Vespucci was deeply involved in the slave trade after all.
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)With its belief in the need for a powerful federal government government, disdain for states rights, embrace of robust taxation, love of infrastructure spending, and concentration of its supporters in large cities, our party is the antithesis of everything Jefferson espoused. We're actually Hamiltonians now.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)but they won't rename their dinners.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)rogerashton
(3,920 posts)I distinguish between Jefferson and Jackson -- as was said of Belisarius, Jefferson's vices were the vices of his time, but his virtues were his own. Jackson, however, pursued genocide against Native Americans, and I think that goes too far. However, it is worthy of note that neither man made war against the United States.
HFRN
(1,469 posts)the space program for which he was known, was for white men only in his time
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)She is a Democrat worth being proud of, is she not?