Left-wing “social justice warriors” have toppled Confederate monuments in recent days.
But their goal of removing and destroying these monuments across the southern United States is just the beginning.
Johnita P. Due is Vice President and General Counsel for CNN.
In a controversial op-ed, she says she felt “punched in the stomach” when Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe invoked the founding fathers as true patriots.
Ms. Due writes about what she calls Governor McAuliffe’s “painful gaffe” on Charlottesville:
Invoking Jefferson to condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who were demonstrating Friday and Saturday is antithetical to Jefferson’s beliefs — and certainly to the life he led.
Jefferson owned 600 slaves during his lifetime, freeing only two men before he died and bequeathing freedom to five other men, believed to be his progeny, upon his death.
And that is part of why McAuliffe’s invocation of Jefferson hit me so hard. Our national healing cannot move forward if even well-meaning leaders don’t recognize the role our Founding Fathers played in seeding white supremacy. [emphasis added]
Destroying respect for the founding fathers is the first step toward destroying their legacy of freedom and ushering in the left-wing utopia CNN and the radical leftists want.
But to the left, nothing less than completely purging the founders from public memory will suffice.
Tucker Carlson summed it up by saying:
If these men were simply racist villains, and that’s all they were, then the society they created is as evil as they were. There is no reason to respect its traditions or uphold its laws.
….
There is actually a vitally important debate going on in the country right now. And it’s not about statues or even the alt-left antifa, it’s about American institutions and whether they are worth preserving.Radicals on the left want to tear it all down as they did the statue in Durham Tuesday.
Equality under the law.
Protections for the individual against the mob.
The absolute right to say and believe anything you choose.Those will be gone. Replaced by something darker and more rigidly conformist.
Is that a country you want to live in?
If it’s not, now is the time to speak up. elites are refusing to. They are too afraid.
What do you think about all this?
Do you agree with CNN’s vice president and assistant general counsel that founding fathers like Jefferson “seeded white supremacy” in America?
By completing this poll, you are agreeing to receive updates by email