Charlottesville, VA, home to the University of Virginia which was founded by Thomas Jefferson, will no longer celebrate Jefferson’s birthday each April 13 and will instead celebrate the day Union forces marched into the city in 1865:
“In a sign of the times, the city council in Charlottesville voted on Monday night to no longer recognize Jefferson’s April 13 birthday as a holiday because he owned slaves. This would have been unfathomable a few years ago.”https://t.co/11FP5aDZb3
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 3, 2019
From the AP:
The city council voted Monday night to scrap the decades-old April 13 holiday honoring the slave-holding president and Founding Father. Charlottesville will now mark Liberation and Freedom Day on March 3, the day U.S. Army forces arrived in the city in 1865.
“So it’s not just Confederate monuments”?
So it’s not just Confederate monuments https://t.co/C7NZdq3AG5
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) July 3, 2019
Trump was right! Again:
As Trump Predicted: Charlottesville Cancels Thomas Jefferson‘s Birthday | Breitbart https://t.co/h30gPsIBSF via @BreitbartNews
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) July 3, 2019
Oh, and this was so, so predictable:
A lot of us fathomed it, but we were told it was unfathomable. https://t.co/BCXJMMVRNH
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) July 3, 2019
Fathomed in July 2015: https://t.co/e8BlHH3vTE
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) July 3, 2019
And it’s been quite a week for Dems. First the Besty Ross flag and now Thomas Jefferson:
July 4th Week, 2019
Betsy Ross
American/Betsy Ross Flag
Thomas JeffersonHave all been deemed unworthy of celebration
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) July 2, 2019
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 3, 2019
Gov. Gavin Newsom says Nike did the right thing pulling those flag shoes, pitches company to come to California https://t.co/w9RBdVbetp
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 3, 2019
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