The latest movement literally sweeping the country is the elimination of vestiges of anything connected with our Country's history of slavery. The Connecticut Democrat Party recently unanimously voted to remove the names of Presidents Jefferson and Jackson from their annual dinner. President Jefferson owned slaves and President Jackson persecuted Native Americans. Democrats in other states, including New Hampshire, have done likewise or are considering doing so. In Portland, Oregon, there is a movement to remove President Woodrow Wilson's name from their high school because he was "America’s most racist modern president.”
I don't think we should stop there. Didn't George Washington own slaves? I'm sure that many pre-Civil War presidents also owned slaves. Let's rid ourselves of anything with their names.
In fact, it is a disgrace that the Democrats haven't changed the name of their party. Wasn't the Democrat Party the party of slave owners and advocates of expansion of slavery into the western territories? Didn't the Democrat Party vigorously oppose the Civil War and didn't they want a negotiated peace with the Confederacy that would have left slavery intact? Didn't people who opposed slavery have to leave the Democrat Party and form their own anti-slavery party, which they called the Republican Party? Wouldn't it be extremely hypocritical for Democrats to decry the flying of the Confederate Flag and yet leave that vestige symbol of slavery, the Democrat Party, unscathed?
Come on Democrats, progressives and other liberals! Where is your outrage at this lasting symbol of slavery and racism? Tear down those Democrat banners wherever you see them. Strip the words, Democrat Party, from our dictionaries and from every public place. Only then will we be free of this symbol of a racist past.
