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Quaker Foods to Rename ‘Aunt Jemima’

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06-19-2020, 11:15 AM (This post was last modified: 06-19-2020, 11:18 AM by mikesez.)

(06-19-2020, 10:08 AM)TJBender Wrote:
(06-19-2020, 07:01 AM)mikesez Wrote: In my opinion, yes.
Even Lee's valiant service in the war with Mexico was meant to gain new territory for slaveholders.
Can you name something good the man did that wasn't an effort to preserve or expand slavery?

Dude, Jackson owned slaves, ran plantations, and dedicated years of his life to committing mass murder (literally, straight up genocide) against an entire race because he wanted their land. I'm not going to defend Lee, but calling a literal genocidal maniac a "mixed bag" while a guy who wanted to expand slavery is evil is just...[BLEEP]'s sake, man.

Even if Jackson did more bad things than Lee did, the fact that Jackson also did good things for the country means I have little problem with his name being on cities and his statue being on public land.
Lee didn't do anything good for the US.  Jackson did.
I also hesitate to call the man a "genocidal maniac" as he adopted an abandoned native boy and raised him to adulthood.

Now, if there is ever a groundswell of support to remove those statues of Jackson and change the names of cities, I'll stand aside. I don't care that much. I think its outrageous we have things named after Lee. I'm neutral about things named after Jackson.
My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.
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