Posted on 07/16/2022 10:23:58 AM PDT by DFG
The globalist billionaire who funded the woke transformation of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello paid for a similar overhaul of James Madison’s house — where the author of the US Constitution has been shoved into a supporting role, while slavery and racism take center stage.
No American flags fly at Montpelier, Madison’s plantation home in rural Virginia, and not a single display focuses on the life and accomplishments of America’s foremost political philosopher, who created our three-branch federal system of government, wrote the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers, and served two terms as president.
Instead, blindsided tourists are hammered by high-tech exhibits about Madison’s slaves and current racial conflicts, thanks to a $10 million grant from left-leaning philanthropist David M. Rubenstein.
“I was kind of thinking we’d be hearing more about the Constitution,” one baffled dad said when The Post visited the president’s home this week. “But everything here is really about slavery.”
“It’s been inspirational … I guess,” shrugged John from Wisconsin after taking the $35 guided tour.
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I’m glad I visited Montpelier and Monticello before the overemphasis of the slavery issue.
These people need to be stopped. Enough of this crap. MOVE ON.
“$35 guided tour”
Pay to be brainwashed—lol!
Woke globalist billionaires need to be told where to stick their money. If the organizations had integrity and cared about preserving history, they wouldn’t have played the whore.
This is going on all over. It’s coordinated. There was an article last week about Montecello doing it, and now this, along with the president’s house site in Philadelphia. While touring the site, you will not hear or see anything about George Washington or John Adams.
I worked with James Madison. He was this founders great-great-great- grand-nephew (if I remember correctly) and looked more than a bit like the paintings I’ve seen. He was also a bit to the right politically of this Founder as well. Great guy.
I acquired a hundred dollars in Jefferson $2 bills with my visit to Monticello decades ago. The look on children’s faces when they got one for trick or treat was priceless ... they thought it was play money!
Slavery has become an enormous “So what?” to me.
There is nothing I can do to change the past, and the Agenda people will never be satisfied by any current actions — so who cares about slavery? It’s boring.
“There is nothing I can do to change the past . . .”
I am thinking about doing something about that.
If I determine it will help, I will backdate the Emancipation Proclamation to July 4, 1776.
That would clean up the whole slavery thing.
I haven’t been to Mt. Vernon in awhile, but it would be a shame if they did not discuss the efforts Washington made to prepare his slaves for the freedom he would give them at his death. Every male on his plantation was given artisan training; he had three African foremen; he encouraged marriage with children and had family quarters; he respected their religious beliefs and allowed them to have their own pastors, etc. A portion of Washington’s slaves were not able to be sold because they were part of his wife’s inheritance and controlled by her nephew, who disagreed with the President about slavery. Mt. Vernon published a book on it and it is well worth reading.
Jefferson was far more restrictive in his plantation methods largely due to the tremendous debt he acquired from both his and his wife’s family upon their parents’ deaths. All of his slaves had to be sold after Jefferson’s death to pay it with the exception of a few skilled artisans he trained and Sally Hemming with her children.
Wish our Republican leaders would be quicker to remind “journalists” that not too many years ago, most of the states opposed to giving black residents the right to vote were run by Democrats!
Hence, the term “democratic” should NEVER be used to describe a member of that party!!
“This is going on all over. It’s coordinated.”
Can’t decide whether to call them termites or locusts... Maybe both.
We’re letting them destroy the foundation of this country and we are not fumigating them!?
Shoulda come to Texas. Debt does not pass to the next generation here.
David M. Rubenstein is an American replica of the Soviet Union’s Trotsky, Radek, Kamenev, or Zinoviev; take your pick.
More bad news. Glad I went when I did.
You mention something there that is very important, I think, and changes the dynamic of how the world worked then.
In those days, the heir or heirs to an estate inherited the debt! This is no longer the case - once the assets are exhausted, the estate is closed out, and creditors don’t have any claim on future earnings.
This is just one reason among many why anybody today talking about slavery, usually has no idea what they are talking about.
For leftist liberals to suggest anything negative about our founders is a sad state of affairs. They are generally speaking, complete scum in comparison. Very sad.
How many Blacks at and before that time were Free Native Blacks like my 6th great-grandmother known only by her first name:, Nancy?
Nancy, Free Native Black
BIRTH ABT. 1730 •
St. Johns Island, Charleston, South Carolina Colony
She was a free black/woman, who lived many years in/with the family of John Stewart:
Born 1730– DEATH Unknown
6th great-grandmother
This is criminal.
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