{"id":17051,"date":"2020-06-16T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:39:26","slug":"cultural-marxist-criminals-tear-down-statue-of-thomas-jefferson-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17051","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Marxist Criminals Tear Down Statue of Thomas Jefferson in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Thomas Jefferson Statue Torn Down at Portland High School<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_17052\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17052\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/portland-high-school-thomas-jefferson-640x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17052\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/portland-high-school-thomas-jefferson-640x480-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/portland-high-school-thomas-jefferson-640x480-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@teressalraiford\/Instagram<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>JOSHUA CAPLAN<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A statue of Thomas Jefferson, the United States\u2019 third president and\u00a0author of the Declaration of Independence, was defaced and torn down on Sunday evening outside a high school in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Photos obtained by Oregon Live show the base of the monument was spray-painted in black with \u201cslave owner\u201d and \u201cGeorge Floyd.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protesters take down Thomas Jefferson statue in front of Portland\u2019s Jefferson High School <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TZIq5s1wY9\">https:\/\/t.co\/TZIq5s1wY9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OGr7hKnm2y\">pic.twitter.com\/OGr7hKnm2y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Oregonian (@Oregonian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oregonian\/status\/1272402925147631616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The statue, situated in front of\u00a0Jefferson High School, was yanked down following a protest against police brutality organized by Rose City Justice.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/2020\/06\/protesters-take-down-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-front-of-portlands-jefferson-high-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">Oregon Live<\/a>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"B6JATO4N7BGITMG7NIRLU7CCXI\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">At about 7:15 p.m., a crowd of more than 1,000 left the high school grounds to march to the park. By the time they returned, a statue of Thomas Jefferson had been pulled from its pedestal, apparently by a smaller group. The statue fell on its side and a dent was visible in the concrete where it fell.<\/p>\n<p id=\"HHDAXLZI2RAFPD2EYJHZVCKOXU\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">Earlier in the day, the statue\u2019s pedestal had been defaced with graffiti that, among other things, identified Jefferson as a slave owner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"Q2NLBRMAKNEVJIYYIXJQZPQON4\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">\u201cThere\u2019s an interesting piece of history up here\u2026 Mr. Thomas is all beside himself,\u201d one protester said of the statue being toppled.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XPD4THG2RJAOBCQFWL527JANF4\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">\u201cWe\u2019re taking this city back,\u201d the organizer added. \u201cOne school at a time. One racist statue at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/15\/thomas-jefferson-statue-torn-down-at-portland-high-school\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/15\/thomas-jefferson-statue-torn-down-at-portland-high-school\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson Statue Torn Down at Portland High School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}