Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home. Source: Chad Fennell, Flickr.
Earlier this month, I wrote here that if we are erasing racist symbols in the wake of the Charleston shooting, perhaps it was also time that Democrats cancel their annual “Jefferson-Jackson Day” Dinners – named, as they are, for two notorious slave owners, Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson.
It was meant as a tongue-in-cheek retort to the Stalinist impulse sweeping the country to erase people from our collective history.
Never did I think that someone would be dumb enough to actually go ahead and do what I suggested.
I was wrong. In an article titled “Democrats drop Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson names from annual fundraising dinner,” The Connecticut Post reports:
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are history in Connecticut.
Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.
Party leaders voted unanimously Wednesday night in Hartford to rename the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in the aftermath of last month’s fatal shooting of nine worshipers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.
The decision is believed to be unprecedented and could prompt Democrats in other states with similarly named events to follow suit.
“I see it as the right thing to do,” Nick Balletto, the party’s first-year chairman, told Hearst Connecticut Media on Wednesday night.
Hmmm, this could be fun. Let’s see if stupidity is contagious, and whether other states follow Connecticut’s lead.
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