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‘Racist + Rapist’: Thomas Jefferson statue vandalized at UVA

By Emily Jashinsky
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‘Racist + Rapist’: Thomas Jefferson statue vandalized at UVA

Thomas Jefferson can’t catch a break— even on his birthday, and even at the school he founded.

Early Friday morning— the 275th anniversary of Jefferson’s birth— graffiti was discovered on a statue of the third president located on the University of Virginia lawn, according to a report from Charlottesville’s NBC affiliate.

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