Undermining America - Walter E. Williams

Undermining America - Walter E. Williams:
"Our nation's leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
...Students at the University of Virginia want to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder. Students at the University of Missouri also want Jefferson's statue gone.
Why?
He was a slave owner.
Many in the college community supported Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential bid.
They welcomed Sanders' belief that the United States was founded on "racist principles." 
There have also been calls for the removal of George Washington's and Abraham Lincoln's statues. Some have called for the renaming of schools that honor Washington, Jefferson and 11 other slave-owning presidents.
Leftists have called for the renaming of streets named after slave-owning presidents.
There have been many leftist calls for the elimination of Columbus Day.
Their success at getting Confederate statues taken down has emboldened them.
What goes unappreciated is just why America's leftists' movement attacks the Founders.
If they can delegitimize the Founders themselves, it goes a long way toward their agenda of delegitimizing the founding principles of our nation.
If the leftists can convince the nation that men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were good-for-nothing slave-owning racists, then their ideas can be more easily trashed. 
We find the greatest assaults on our founding documents on the nation's college campuses..."