The heirs of the third US president insist on the demolition of his memorial

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.