They re aiming at Jefferson, but the real target is America

Thomas Jefferson isn t memorialized on the Mall in Washington, DC, and elsewhere around the country because of the racist things he wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia.

Jefferson doesn t have a place of honor in American history because of his now widely accepted by historians sexual relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, who was the half-sister of his wife. He isn t held up as among our most exalted Founders because of his fear of slave revolts and his ever-closer association with the slave South as he grew older.

No, Jefferson is on a pedestal for achievements that still define the country today for the better.

He wrote the ringing lines in the preamble of the Declaration that eventually took on world-historical importance and were used as a rhetorical and philosophical cudgel against the slave system and white supremacy by the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

via nypost.com

TJ is problematic alright. I bet you could find a few problems with BLM founders too.