NYC council votes to remove statue of Thomas Jefferson. (School kid: "Who dat?")

Last week a cabal of unelected communists in New York City voted--unanimously--to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the city council chambers.

The communists were (and are) members of an official gummint body called the Public Design Commission.  They're unelected, instead being appointed by...wait for it...the ghastly, corrupt, hypocrite mayor of that cesspool, Bill deBlasio (real name Warren Wilhelm).

One of the communists, who has declared Jefferson a racist, is himself a racist:  black State Assemblyman Charles Barron.

When asked what the city should do with the statue Barron replied “I think it should be put in storage *or destroyed* or whatever.”

For public-school students, Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.  Of course this means nothing to Barron.  And by the way: Another group of wackos is also big on destroying statues: ISIS.  Of course you don't hear much about those wackos anymore, eh?

You won't be surprised to hear that Barron supports Louis Farrakhan.  He also called former Libyan president Muammar Qaddafi his “hero” and an “African freedom fighter.” Similarly, he supported Robert Mugabe, the communist president of Zimbabwe, who was accused of torturing and killing thousands in the country he ruled with an iron fist for 40 years.

Barron doesn't try to hide his hate for whites, once saying “You know some days I just want to go up to the closest white person and say, ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing,’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

Imagine if a white person said that about a black person.

Barron has also worked against the interest of black parents by opposing charter public schools for blacks.  In 2011, when 12 failing NYC public schools were slated to close, he protested the decision to close them.

As to be expected, Barron refuses to salute the American flag and is opposed to the Pledge of Allegiance.

If Barron knew anything about history, he would know that when Jefferson owned slaves, slavery was commonplace all over the world. While slavery was made illegal in the U.S. in 1865, it's still legal in some African countries.

Nowhere in the world at that time had any country had anything like the Declaration, which is why slavery was considered unobjectionable. Not to acknowledge this is pure ignorance.

In his annual address to Congress in 1806, our third president (Jefferson) called for the “criminalization of international slave trade” on the first possible date. The following year he signed into law the provision barring importing slaves into the U.S.  

Barron doesn't care, and wants Jefferson's statue destroyed.

It is said that Jefferson fathered slave children with Sally Hemings. The fact is there is no existing DNA of Jefferson available. The DNA that was used in tests to settle this controversy came from descendants of Field Jefferson, his uncle. Any one of two dozen Jeffersons could have been the father of Hemings’ 5th child.

The commission hasn't decided what to do with Jefferson's statue. It originally planned to move the statue to the New York Historical Society.  However, the commission's president objected because the historical society charges an admission fee.

But that shouldn't bother Barron, since in his world no black person would ever want to see a statue of Thomas Jefferon.

Back in 2017, after statues of Confederate figures were targeted, President Trump predicted that soon enough it would be statues of Jefferson and Washington that would face the axe.

“This week it’s Robert E. Lee," said the president.  "I see they're taking down Stonewall Jackson.  I wonder, will they remove George Washington next week?  Will Thomas Jefferson be removed the week after? You really do have to ask yourself: ‘Where does it stop?’”

As usual, Trump was right.