15 June Trump 2020 by the President of the United States
San Francisco journalist Wang Shan
The recent outbreak of anti-racist protest in various parts of the United States has resulted in the removal and demolition of statues of historical figures accused of racism. Following former President Davis (Jefferson Davis), General Lee (Robert Lee), Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Civil War, and Columbus (Christopher Columbus), who discovered a new mainland in the Americas, it is now the turn of Thomas Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson), one of the founding fathers of the United States, the principal drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence and the third president.
On the evening of the 14th, anti-racism demonstration set out from Jefferson High School, and some demonstration returned to Jefferson High School at about 10 p.m. An organizer of the demonstration event said :" There is an interesting history. We are retaking the city, one school at a time, and one racist statue at a time. "
Earlier in the day, the pedestal of the statue was graffitied with the words "Jefferson was a slave owner" and "Freud ". george floyd (George Perry Floyd), an african-american, death, triggered a national wave of anti-racist protest in white police law enforcement on may 25.
Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 and died in 1826. He was the third president of the United States, the main drafter of the American Declaration of Independence and the most influential figure in the founding fathers of the United States. Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are born equal ," and publicly condemned slavery as a system that would" disappear ," but demonstration said he had more than 600 slaves.
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