CNN Op-Ed Attacks McAuliffe For Praising Slave Owners

2:12 PM 08/16/2017

In an op-ed Tuesday, CNN assistant general counsel Johnita Due criticized Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe for holding up Thomas Jefferson as a “patriot” after the Charlottesville attack.

McAuliffe made the comments while condemning white nationalists.

“I have a message to all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple: Go home,” McAuliffe said. “You are not wanted in this great Commonwealth. … You pretend that you are patriots, but you are anything but a patriot.”

“You want to talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, who brought our country together,” he continued.

As Due pointed out, Washington and Jefferson both owned slaves.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/opinions/jefferson-charlottesville-rally-opinion-due/index.html