Time to rename the "Jefferson-Jackson" dinners?

[Ken Burch]

After all, if we want the Dixie Swastika to come down, the argument can be made we have to hold OUR party to the same standards. How much does what this party stands for now, and aspires to achieve for the future, still relate, in any meaningful sense, to slave-owners and slaughterers of Native Americans?

Also...if you want the dinners renamed, what alternative names would you suggest?

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[PeteSelman]

1. I fear we have gone insane with this nonsense.

Jefferson is the fucking founder of the party for Christ's sake. He was a great man, a brilliant man and as instrumental in the founding of this country as anyone. Why not rename the party? Why not rename the country? Vespucci was deeply involved in the slave trade after all.

[Proud Public Servant]

2. Jefferson would despise today's Democratic Party

With its belief in the need for a powerful federal government government, disdain for states rights, embrace of robust taxation, love of infrastructure spending, and concentration of its supporters in large cities, our party is the antithesis of everything Jefferson espoused. We're actually Hamiltonians now.

[gollygee]

3. The Republicans aren't really represented by Lincoln either

but they won't rename their dinners.

[hobbit709]

4. Next they will want to erase Washington-after all he owned slaves too.

[rogerashton]

5. Jefferson-Roosevelt

I distinguish between Jefferson and Jackson -- as was said of Belisarius, Jefferson's vices were the vices of his time, but his virtues were his own. Jackson, however, pursued genocide against Native Americans, and I think that goes too far. However, it is worthy of note that neither man made war against the United States.

[HFRN]

6. we could name them the Kennedy dinners but

the space program for which he was known, was for white men only in his time

[scarletwoman]

7. How about calling them Eleanor Roosevelt dinners?

She is a Democrat worth being proud of, is she not?