The National Mall is funded by several non-profit groups. One of them — The Trust for the National Mall — is demanding that changes be made to highlight which of the Founding Fathers owned slaves. First under attack is Thomas Jefferson.
Beginning with the Jefferson Memorial, what Trust officials are calling the “complexity” of the personal lives of the Founding Fathers will be emphasized as the monuments are altered.
“We can reflect on the momentous contributions of someone like Thomas Jefferson, but also consider carefully the complexity of who he was,” a Trust official told the Washington Examiner. “And that’s not reflected right now in the exhibits.”
The report continues:
The Trust has the ability to wield significant influence over the new exhibits, because they provide crucial private funding for the National Mall. The National Park Service [NPS] faces an $11.49 billion deficit for repairing and maintaining the parks, including an $852 million shortfall for the Mall alone. The Trust works to fill that gap by coordinating fundraising drives from “patriotic philanthropists” and that support projects identified by the NPS as a top priority.
Trump’s suggestion that Jefferson could be the next founding father targeted by the far-left proved prophetic only days after he made the statement. It would be amazing if the left weren’t so predictable. Unfortunately, their patterns of lunacy are crystal-clear.
Source: Breitbart
This is completely dishonorable.
WHY was NONE of this an issue when Obama, black president, was in office?
No caving.
Or a statue of the first slave being purchased in Africa