What about Jefferson, huh?

Dang, just when all this was going so well for the Democrats and the anti-Confederate cause.

Al Sharpton: Defund The Jefferson Memorial

As if to vindicate Trump and the racist right . . .

Al Sharpton: When you look at the fact that public monuments are supported by public funds, you are asking me to subsidize the insult of my family. 

Charlie Rose: Then I repeat Thomas Jefferson had slaves. 

Al Sharpton: And I would repeat that the public should not be paying to uphold somebody who had that kind of background. You have private museums. You have other things that you may want to do, but that's not even the issue here, Charlie. We're talking about here, an open display of bigotry announced and over and over again.

Of course, that monument is not there to celebrate slavery or to commend Jefferson for owning slaves.

It was not put there as an affirmation of racism and white supremacy.

It is there to commend the revolutionary for the Declaration of Independence.

Can or should America consent to have no monuments to its past leaders?

Who among them was without sin?

And haven't we forgotten the Indians, who might have a grievance, too?

(If the Indians collectively owned the New World and late arriving whites were racial and racist invaders don't eurowhites collectively and racially own Europe?

Aren't those refugees steadily streaming across the Med racist invaders of the Aryan homeland, just as the alt.right probably say?)

PS. Given Al's past in the Brawley affair, should he be allowed a place of honor, the bully pulpit of MSNBC?

Perhaps he has never quite gotten over his then attitude toward white people and America.

Is that not an insult to all of white America?

Just asking.

If the narrative at MSNBC and elsewhere in Democratic anti-Trumpland starts to go this way it will soon enough start driving white Americans back into the arms of the GOP.

They will hold their noses and sit next to David Duke, if they feel they have to.