The Entire State Of Virginia Is Named After A Slave-Trader

Antifa clashed with white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., over a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, but the state itself is named after the woman who brought slavery to the Americas.

Queen Elizabeth I, also known as The Virgin Queen, reigned from 1533 to 1603 and sponsored the expansion of the English slave trade into the British colonies of America and India, according to the national archives of the U.K. When Virginia gained statehood 1788, it owed its name to the late queen.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/u...te-of-virginia-is-named-after-a-slave-trader/

oldjones said:

Does this in any way excuse people from self-identifying with a political movement that glorified brutal government oppression and mass extermination? Does a foreigner who lived a half-century ago somehow justify people glorifying slave-owning lynch mobs and identifying with their cowardly brutality?

Just on the off-chance you weren't just sharing History Trivia, but trying to broaden the discussion of current political events.

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yes it is history trivia

The U.S installed a neonazi government in Ukraine 3 years ago the same people that are attacking Trump didn't have a problem with neo-nazis in Ukraine