{"id":122864,"date":"2019-05-20T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122864"},"modified":"2019-05-20T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:40:55","slug":"pete-buttigieg-erasing-thomas-jeffersons-name-right-thing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122864","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg: Erasing Thomas Jefferson\u2019s Name \u2018Right Thing to Do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_122865\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-1149616734-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122865\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122865\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-1149616734-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-1149616734-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-1149616734-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Olson\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by Joshua Kaplan<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h3>Appearing Friday on\u00a0<em>The Hugh Hewitt Show<\/em>, 2020 Democrat White House contender and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said events bearing\u00a0President Thomas Jefferson\u2019s name should be renamed, calling it the \u201cright thing to do.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jR3EIQeziCw?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A partial transcript is as follows:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HUGH HEWITT:\u00a0<\/strong>Let\u2019s go to policy now. A very blunt question because you talk about going to every Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Indiana when you were running statewide. Should Jefferson-Jackson dinners be renamed everywhere because both were holders of slaves?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah, we\u2019re doing that in Indiana. I think it\u2019s the right thing to do. You know, over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor. And I think we know enough, especially Jackson, you know, you just look at what basically amounts to genocide that happened here. Jefferson\u2019s more problematic. You know, there\u2019s a lot to, of course, admire in his thinking and his philosophy. Then again, as you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew that slavery was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEWITT:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<br \/>\n<strong>BUTTIGIEG:\u00a0<\/strong>And yet, he did. Now, we are all morally conflicted human beings. It\u2019s not like we\u2019re blotting him out of the history books or deleting him from being the Founding Fathers. But naming something after somebody confers a certain amount of honor.\u00a0The real reason I think there is a lot of pressure on this is the relationship between the past and present that we\u2019re finding in a million different ways that racism isn\u2019t some curiosity out of the past that we\u2019re embarrassed about but moved on from. It\u2019s alive, it\u2019s well, it\u2019s hurting people, and it\u2019s one of the main reasons to be in politics today, is to try to change or reverse the harms that went along with that. We better find ways to live out and honor that principle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/05\/17\/pete-buttigieg-erasing-thomas-jeffersons-name-right-thing-to-do\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/05\/17\/pete-buttigieg-erasing-thomas-jeffersons-name-right-thing-to-do\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}