In response to the latest backlash against “white privilege”
and its attendant pro-slavery symbols and history, Jefferson (Bus) Lines is
re-branding itself as “George Jefferson Bus Lines,” after the beloved black
protagonist in the hit television series that ran from 1975 until 1985. A
company spokesperson said, “We just wanted to clarify which Jefferson we were really
named after. We couldn’t be more proud of our history or our namesake.”
Jefferson Lines was established in 1919.
In a
related story, the iconic rock band Jefferson Starship (aka Jefferson Airplane)
released a statement earlier today allowing that they will henceforth be known
as “Lincoln Starship.”
Additionally,
the Jefferson City, Missouri, City Council announced yesterday that the town would
forevermore be known as “Obama City,” and that it is deeply proud of “this fundamental transformation of our fair
burg.”
Last
week, Bloomington Jefferson High School in Bloomington, Minnesota, announced it
will now be officially dubbed, “Bloomington LGBTG High School,” in honor of our
more deserving sexually and gender-diverse
communities.
Moreover,
the Obama administration has announced plans to remove Jefferson from the
nickel beginning in 2016. He will be replaced by Louis Farrakhan. In addition, “In
God We Trust” will be replaced on the formerly-Jefferson-nickel by the slogan
“Screw You Jew Bastards.” The term “Liberty,” also on the
previously-Jefferson-adorned coin will be supplanted by “Arbeit Machs Du Frei,
Ya?” The depiction of Monticello on the back of the nickel will go away, as
well, to be replaced by a hammer and sickle.
President
Obama released a statement just hours ago, “affirming how proud I am of the
progress this country has made under my peerless leadership, despite the
objections and obfuscations of the religious troglodytes, the reactionary
racists, the Fox News Fascists, the country-music-loving,
Confederate-flag-waving-whackos,
those in fly-over country pathetically and dangerously clinging to their God
and their guns, and other assorted name-calling and mean-spirited weirdos that keep us from coming
together as one great nation.”
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