Descendants of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, demand the demolition of a memorial to his memory in the District of Columbia, transmits CNN.
There are two plaintiffs: the white American Lucien Trescott, the sixth generation president’s great-grandson and the black actor Shannon Lanier, a descendant of Jefferson and his slave ninth slave.
" And we must learn to see people in them, not gods or idols, "
Trescott proposes replacing the Jefferson Memorial with the Harriet Tabman Memorial, a black abolitionist who opposed slavery and social reform in the US, which he called one of the "
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Doe advocates a monument symbolizing the unity of the American people.