TFN - Dunbar's Distorted Views on Jefferson � Texas Freedom Network

Dunbar%u2019s Distorted Views on Jefferson � Texas Freedom Network

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1. President John F Kennedy held a dinner that included some of the most talented artists and thinkers of the time. His remarks to the guests was to the effect that “there hasn’t been so much talent a dinner here in the White House since Thamas Jefferson did when, dining by himself.

   I have read posts by the Righteous Right to effect that Lincoln was a Marxist because Marx wrote him a letter when Marx was a newspaperman in New York. I am at a loss as to what aggregious error Jefferson is accused of. After all, he kept his slaves, one of whom he bore a child with whose progeny meet with the other half of the family today. That ought to qualify Jefferson as a bastion of the South.

   So what’s the problem.

2. Joe Lapp Says:
   March 19, 2010 at 1:58 pm

   To argue this effectively, I think we need a really short, easy-to-understand counter-argument. If it’s not pointed, it doesn’t cut.

   What significant point do we lose in striking Jefferson from this standard? How do we know that point isn’t covered elsewhere.

   My understanding was that, with this change, students are no longer required to read Jefferson’s writings, so student’s wouldn’t learn Jefferson’s opinion on the separation of church and state. Is my understanding wrong? "

   
   

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