Move the Jefferson Memorial to someplace it will be respected by people who can think. I suggest Atlantis.

I like the renaming idea.
In case you hadn't noticed, I always call it the Dark Center.
Paraphrasing Luke Skywalker, "If there's a bright center to the universe, DC is the place that it's farthest from."

The buttons are being furiously pushed to provoke riots so sOmeOne can impOse martial law, suspend the Constitution, and extend his reign of destruction. Don't doubt for a second that all this lunatic anti-American pro-revisionist history nutjobs aren't backed in someway by O or someone he's in bed with.

I am sorry but I am actually a fan of President Jefferson. Yes, he was a slaveholder but he was a renaissance man and the embodiment of the enlightenment. He was an Ambassador to England and France, he was Secretary of State under President Washington, he was Governor of Virginia. He established the University of Virginia. He designed the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. Along with all of his inventions and machinations, he was truly a remarkable man. For being a slave holder though, you cannot look in the present tense, you have to look at the time frame in which he lived and the current political context does not look at that. They are putting everything into the modern context and do not understand history or what these people, like Washington and Jefferson and Adams and Hancock and others accomplished. This country would not exist in it's current state (as bad as it currently is) without the sacrifice that those individuals put forth.

I would ask those who are in favor of these changes what, exactly, would be improved in our country if we were to enact said changes tomorrow morning? Would history be changed? Would there no longer be any racial animus? If the answers are negative, what reason other than hatred could possibly be given for this wanton destruction?

DC is unworthy of Jefferson and Washington. This is further evidence of the self-loathing that is pervasive amongst most non-Gulchers.

Everything we're experiencing lately is due to the change from teaching American history to Social Studies and its demon offspring, "social justice".

This is why people are so ignorant of our past and the great men who built this country.

All of these distractionary tactics by the left are to keep us in reactionary mode and on our heels.

The truly sad part of all this is the constant caving in to these societal numbskulls by the politicians who are only interested in their political careers and NOT what's right.

Originally, it was called Federal City. Then, the Federalists renamed it "Washington" in honor of the man whom they called "the father of his country." Ignorant of Latin texts such as Suetonius, no one knows that "pater patriae" was a title granted to Roman emperors (first citizens: princeps), by the Senate, as if he were the pater familias of all Rome. Renaming Washington DC to Federal City DC would be the republican thing to do.

As for the complex and multifaceted Mr. Jefferson, as much as we must admire his rhetoric on behalf of the rights of man, the rights of Sally Hemings were somewhat less important to him. It is not just that he owned slaves, slavery being simply a legal status, but that he banged the daylights out of a minor girl whom he owned as property. It was completely, totally, and irrevocably an unequal relationship. "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other." [Query XVIII, “Manners” -- here: http://tjrs.monticello.org/archive/se...]

So, I would keep the Jefferson Memorial as a reminder of how internally conflicted America is. You gotta take the bad with the good. But Washington? In the libertarian science fiction series of the Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith, Washington was hanged as a traitor to the Republic, and Hamilton was exiled to Prussia.

It is official, nothing is about race, it is about ignorance. The populace has watched too much TV drivel and have become incapable of reasoned thought. Galt help us all.

The Fascist Liberals are hard at work to gut our nation. They want to rewrite history, eliminate the Founding Fathers and our Constitution. For decades we have allowed our nation school system to indoctrinate our children into socialist anarchy. We are paying the price! Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from. It seam that at least half of our children have been sent in the wrong direction.
We should leave the Jefferson Memorial right where it is, and deport all of Fascist Liberal that are ruining our nation.

there is no longer any tradition associated with the nation that has been referred too as the united states of america, so lets change the names of everything until a new democratic crowd decides that things should be changed to something else. this country is determined to destroy itself from within, we need no outside enemies.

This isn't a joke, is it? It sounds like some trick Jesse Watters would pull: ask people whether they would support something outrageous and actually find takers. Jesse Watters tells us just how fouled up government education really is.

Of course, here's another I Could Say That But I Won't moment. In this case: I could say public education delivers horrible results. But I won't say it, because I do not argue from possibly bad results but from a basic premise that the government has no business meddling in education, aside from training military or police officers.

I'll vote for "Maggot Hole, DC (District of Corruption). There are a few dozen more likely, descriptive and totally unbiased candidates I can think of as well. I thought Shrug had found some humorous satire, but these idiots mean it.....The End Is Near...

SCBs!! What the hell won't these idiots suggest?

And who the hell told them their opinions and ideas weren't perfect demonstrations of the old adage:

'It's often better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"

How about Che Guavera D.C.
Or perhaps Cesar Chavez D.C.
Or maybe Mao-Tse Dung D.C.
Oh, wait, I've got it -- Benedict Arnold City D.C.
Or you could divide it into four sections and name each section with one of the above. Then, America haters who disparage the country of their birth can feel proud of an exhibition of some of those who have shown the opposite of what America once stood for.

This is the type of thought that happens when reason, reality and boundaries are eliminated from childhood upbringing.
Processing thought takes some effort.
We live in a society where our pop culture teaches that changing a name or a word recreates reality. ("You didn't build that...")
Reminds me of the ostrich that hides it's head in the sand. Nothing good can happen when your defenses consist of ignoring reality.

There should be NO rewriting of history. Whatever happened, happened. Its a slippery slope, and in the end, pretty much ALL of history should be eliminated. The Union army did a LOT of bad stuff with the indians, the mexicans, the mormons, etc. Although we have this consititution, the country didnt follow it very closely when it was taking over all the land from atlantic to pacific oceans.

Strugatsky, I was not defending Jefferson Davis.
I'd just as soon take his statue down and put it in
a museum. Thomas Jefferson was not Jefferson
Davis. (And if, incidentally, blacks could also own
slaves, that does not make slavery any better).

As to history, Richard Speck was part of
our history. So was the Boston Strangler. Also
Al Capone. Does that mean we should erect
heroic statues to them?

Jefferson did not fight for slavery. Neither did
Washington. At the time of the Revolution, slavery
was legal also in England. Neither man was per-
fect. Still, Washington freed his slaves in his will.
Jefferson, (unfortunately, and also reprehensib-
ly), did not. But I believe that the Declaration of
Independence, which he largely wrote, did lead
eventually to the abolitionist crusade, the Civil
War, and to the eventual freeing of slaves.

However, Jefferson Davis was the president
of the Confederacy, and, I have read, was a
slaveholder, and there is no reason why he
should have a statue like a hero's dedicated to
him in the public square and maintained at tax-
payers' expense. There is talk here (Richmond,
Va.) of talking the statues off Monument Ave.
and putting them in a museum, which I think is
the best idea. Someone else has proposed
adding Civil Rights' heroes statues to the Aven-
ue instead, but I do not think it is right to hold
those who fought for a cause, which, if won,
would have resulted in the continuing of slave-
ry, as "heroes" equal to those who did some-
thing positive.

It is time to change the name of the capitol. Obamagrad would be appropriate. Just like in honor of the great men before him - Leningrad, Stalingrad...

Rename Washington, DC? May I suggest calling it Mordor or Z'ha'dum?

At first T thought this was joke, but sure enough the communists are serious. These idiots should be on their knees thanking him for his work. As far as moving his memorial, my back 40 is available. I'll give it to the cause.

Rename Washington DC, I think old George would be glad his name is taken off of it. Rename it Hell

Let's just call it the nation's bunghole! Heh heh, heh heh.

It is a very interesting thought on what this beautiful country has been doing to it's people and (classes), unfortunately this looks like the way it is going.....oh but for a simpler life....NOT GONNA HAPPEN, but look on the bright side, we ALL could move to Mars...LOL

So.............. When is The White House going to be renamed The Black House?

Hello LS,
Offensive. Symbolism over substance and political correctness run amok. Out of context history, cherry picked factoids designed to destroy entire legacies for satisfaction of the brainless.
Regards,
O.A.