Students at Hofstra University on Long Island,N.
Y., are hotly debating as some protest for the removal of a statue of Thomas Jefferson, and citing his ownership of slaves,while others are in favor of keeping it, citing the third U.
S. president’s historical importance. The students will converge in a planned protest and counter-protest on the Hofstra campus […]The post Thomas Jefferson statue creates heated racial climate on Hofstra U. campus appeared first on theGrio.
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