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Pete Buttigieg wants Jefferson-Jackson dinners renamed

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg called for the Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinners to be renamed.

“Yeah, we’re doing that in Indiana. I think it’s the right thing to do,” Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said in a Friday radio interview with conservative host Hugh Hewitt. He was asked if the dinners should be renamed because the two presidents were slaveholders.

“There’s a lot, of course, to admire in his thinking and his philosophy,” Buttigieg said of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s third president.

“But then again, if you plunge into his writings, especially the ‘Notes on the State of Virginia,’ you know that he knew slavery was wrong. And yet he did it,” he explained.





The pol does not favor removing Jefferson’s name from history books.

“Over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor,” Buttigieg said. “Naming something after someone confers a lot of honor.”





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