Is It Possible For White Folk To Ever Transcend The Parochialism of Their Race?
And objectively confront their bigotry?
I was impelled to write this article, after having read this extraordinarily egregious post in Britain’s premier broadsheet newspaper —The Times — nearly a week ago.
In her article, Lionel Shriver argued that those clamouring for the removal of the statue of Thomas Jefferson fail to grasp his extraordinary achievements.
In her words captured below:
One of America’s “founding fathers”, now foundering fathers, Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, as well as a two-term president. He was a great advocate of religious freedom, especially for Jews, one of whom gratefully ponied up the funds for this statue. Jefferson engineered the Louisiana Purchase, doubling America’s land mass. He was a classic renaissance man: an architect, philosopher, surveyor, mathematician, philatelist and horticulturist. It’s amazing the hobbies you could cram into a lifetime before Netflix.
The author went on to devote two sentences to the crimes of Jefferson before expending three paragraphs in attacking “the knee jerk reaction of the woke activists” who are intent on removing the statue of “the classic renaissance man”.