In the latest story about political correctness making people stupid, the Connecticut Democratic Party recently voted to rename its annual fundraising dinner to remove references to former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson a couple of dead racists.
For nearly 70 years Democratic officials in the state gathered at an annual dinner named for Democratic Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Later, according to the Hartford Courant, famed former party boss John Bailey’s name was added to the dinner.
But the Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Dinner, as it is widely known, is now going to be renamed because party officials are convinced that is longtime moniker conjures images of the enslavement, whipping and raping of black people. (As opposed, I presume, to the favored imagery of Democratic fat cats gathering to plan how to best continue the vicious cycle of handout-driven poverty in the nation’s minority neighborhoods to ensure their voter rolls remain strong.)
“I see it as the right thing to do,” Nick Balletto, the party’s first-year chairman, told Hearst Connecticut Media.
“I wasn’t looking to be a trailblazer or set off a trend that’s going to affect the rest of the country. Hopefully, they’ll follow suit when they see it’s the right thing to do.”
The party cited Jackson’s treatment of Native Americans and Jefferson’s slave ownership as key to their decision.
They didn’t much improve the situation with the dinner’s new honoree, according to the Daily Caller:
But the Missouri party’s decision to instead name the dinner for Harry Truman might not have been the most racially savvy choice.
“I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman,” Truman wrote as a 27-year old in 1911. “Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman.”
“[Uncle Will] does hate Chinese and Japs,” Truman wrote. “So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, yellow men in Asia and white men in Europe and America.”
Though Truman nearly lost the 1948 Democratic nomination when Southern Democrats walked out of the convention due to Truman’s mildly progressive racial policies at the time, his personal beliefs were pretty firmly racist.
As a U.S. senator, Truman told his daughter in a letter that the White House waitstaff was comprised of “an army of coons.”
You really can’t make this stuff up.
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