Students at NY’s Hofstra want Jefferson statue removed

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.  — Some students at New York’s Hofstra University want a Thomas Jefferson statue removed because Jefferson was a slave owner who believed black people were inherently inferior to whites.
Student Ja’loni Owens started a Change.org petition demanding that administrators of the university on Long Island remove the statue and “no longer display it on campus.”
Owens and other student activists are planning a Friday protest in front of the statue.
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