The Democrats’ Jefferson-Jackson Dinner? Yeah, the PC police just caught up with it

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It was really just a matter of time.

No flag, no historical monument, no statue, grave, or dinner (dinner? keep reading…) will escape the clutches of the PC-police once they’ve set their hand-wringing sights on that particular aspect of history they deem should be erased.

And no historical figure, whether they served as President, won the Battle of New Orleans, or wrote the freaking Declaration of Independence, will be immune from purging if they didn’t conform to our 21st century standards of virtue.

In this case, if they owned slaves.

WISTV reports:

South Carolina’s Democratic Party will no longer use the name of two former presidents who were slave owners in its name for an annual fundraiser.

The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, which is scheduled for Sept. 30, will be renamed after this year’s event, according to a spokesman for the SCDP. It was named after former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

“Though Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson did play integral roles in the institutional development of the Democratic Party, our Executive Committee members — being careful not to judge historical figures solely by modern standards and thus taking full account of the range of views on the issue of slavery and treatment of Native Americans in American society during that era — decided that our annual dinner should be a reflection of the modern Democratic Party,” SCDP Chairman Jaime Harrison said in a statement Tuesday night.

Sam Martin, who is a member of the Newberry County Democratic Party, said he gave a speech at the SCDP State Executive Committee meeting Tuesday night asking for the members to change the name of the dinner. This is an effort, he said, that has been ongoing for 20 years. Tuesday night, the change was approved unanimously.

“I was very surprised by the unanimous vote,” Martin said, adding that keeping the name as Jefferson-Jackson Dinner has been offensive to African-American members of the state Democratic Party.

The intention is to deliberate and select another name in a few months. How about they just abandon all pretenses and just call it the Lenin and Stalin dinner?

The honesty would be refreshing.

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