Commentary The final decision, after years of debate, was made Oct. 8 to remove from the New York City Council chambers the statue of the man we all know to have been a dreaded slaveholder—to the tune of 600 over his lifetime—Thomas Jefferson. Despite that, writing at Bari Weiss’ substack, political science professor Samuel Goldman, with whom I concur, is less than happy “The removal is disgraceful. Unlike monuments to Confederate leaders that display them in full military glory, Jefferson is depicted as a writer. Holding a quill pen in one hand and the Declaration of Independence in the other, he is clearly being honored for composing an immortal argument for liberty and equality.” Ah, life, isn’t it complicated? Just ask Sally Hemings. But you can’t, obviously. Who knows—perhaps Jefferson went to his grave wishing he could have married Sally, his slave with whom he apparently had children. Sally may …