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  1. Marxists rewriting our history and American heritage.
    Maybe we will learn how Marx and Engles Religion should be our new national religion to enlighten mankind.
    I hate these people

  2. It wasn’t that long ago that the Dems had an annual fundraiser in February or March at all levels of government called the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. It’s been renamed, of course, as the Liberty and Justice Celebration or something equally woke.

    Here’s your favorite Transportation Secretary (back when he was a candidate for Biden’s present gig) calling on Indiana to do the right thing:

    https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/pete-buttigieg-wants-thomas-jefferson-events-and-buildings-renamed/

  3. This outrage is attracting insufficient attention, and far too few figures with cultural authority or political power are courageous enough to decry the intensifying assault on all elements of American history and of the Western tradition (for details, consult the new book by Douglas Murray entitled The War on the West). One week ago Bari Weiss posted (on her SubStack) a fascinating and alarming essay by a tenured professor at UCLA (Joseph Manson) who is leaving his position out of dismay at the destruction of his (and other universities) by leftist fanatics and “woke” zealots.

  4. For those interested, I was at Mt. Vernon in June. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union, the non profit which maintains and preserves Mt. Vernon, has not (yet) been taken over by woke zombies. The treatment of slavery was, I thought, balanced and in context. It was not part of every other sentence as it is at Monticello (I can verify it is there – I was there in February). If you are in the greater DC area make sure you allocate a day for it. It is worth it.

  5. those who are for cancelling Washington dont seem to care that he freed his slaves.
    I wonder how many slave owning African kings did that?

  6. The United States has sustained a mortal wound, inflicted by stupid +/or evil Democrats and blacks. That we should cower in response to the 13%, who as a whole are dumber and more violent than their fellow citizens (as to dumb, think Ta-Nehisi, the corrupt BLM founders, and the NYT 1619 female, Hannah-Jones) is truly revolting.
    Praises to Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell, inter alia! I wrote “as a whole”, did I not?

    Personally, I remember with affection my days long ago in Charlottesville, when the entire populace spoke about “Mr. Jefferson” as if he’d just gone away for a weekend. But that university, designed by the great man himself, is now totally socialist.

  7. If it weren’t for Sally Hemmings, would Jefferson be mentioned in schools at all?

  8. Dwaz–

    They’d have to mention Jefferson in connection with the Louisiana Purchase and the Corps of Discovery (Lewis and Clark expedition)– although I can think of ways they could weasel out of either or both.

  9. I’m surprised that James Madison doesn’t come in for more criticism from the crazies since he is largely responsible for the constitution that they very much hate and of course he was a slaveholder.

    I’m sure there have been attacks on him but they don’t seem to get as much attention as Jefferson and Washington.

    Has anybody been to Montpeiler lately?

  10. I’ve been rereading McCullough’s ‘John Adams’ and it never ceases to move me. Not just his work but his marriage. Amazing life.

    John Adams is the founder that should be cherished by all.

  11. The Dems hate America. And right now with their insane push for net carbon zero, they are assuring our destruction at the hands of China. And, no, I don’t think I’m being crazy.

    Tucker Carlson made a great point the other day. Our number one foe is not tiny Russia. It is China. China is on the way of surpassing us in GDP.

    All of this Russia and J6 stuff is a distraction. I remain convinced that the CCP let the virus out on purpose in order to get rid of Trump. If 3 million Chinese died, so what?

    The Dems won’t like it when China dominates the world.

    It really makes me sick to watch how the Dems and Biden are helping China

  12. I first visited Monticello in the mid-1980s when I was in grad school. It seems to me in those days you were allowed to visit the house at your own pace without being accompanied by a guide. I marveled at all the details in the house, from the dumbwaiter to the early copying device on display. The view is magnificent and I tried to imagine what it must have been like in Jefferson’s day to see the founding of a great nation and see its potential in the years ahead.

    I was there a few years ago with my children and was excited to show them what a wonderful place Monticello was and was of course disappointed in all the negative commentary from the guides. This was about seven years ago so I assume it is much worse by now.

  13. Jefferson defended liberty foremost among the founders not some dalliance one of his sons had with sally hemmings (who i first heard of on ‘head of the class’) well franklin as well

  14. Jefferson defended liberty foremost among the founders not some dalliance one of his sons had with sally hemmings (who i first heard of on ‘head of the class’) well franklin as well

    Don’t believe he had any legitimate sons. There are a few descendants of the sons of Sally Hemings for whom the line of descent from one of her sons to their person is completely male. Those few descendants can be identified as descendants of a male in the Jefferson family, which could be TJ himself, or his brother, or his nephews.

  15. Books by critical race theory proponents Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates enjoy pride of place in the visitor center’s gift shop, while the smaller Farm Shop store displays five titles on Jefferson’s slaves — and a single biography of the man himself…

    Coates is a magazine writer whose expertise lies in turning in usable copy on time. He has no more liberal education than a randomly selected person off the street; he’s just more verbose. Reviewing his publications, John Derbyshire’s assessment of his interests was that they begin and end with “American Blackness”. As for Kendi, he has few actually scholarly publications. He managed once to place an article in New York History. Both of these men are essentially polemicists, and no one serious about disseminating informative literature would give them pride of place.

  16. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation is run by a roster of big-money Democratic donors and former Democratic officials…

    I’m not recognizing any names other than the twit who used to edit Newsweek

    https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/members-of-the-board-of-trustees/

    Here’s a somewhat different list:

    https://www.monticello.org/get-involved/about-the-foundation/

    If true, another piece of evidence that the the Democratic Party is a cancer on the country.

    The irony is that a generation ago, the docents gave you an account of Jefferson’s life and activities that attributed to him some rather talents, skills, and habits (“anticipated the methods of modern archaeology by x hundred years”, “never awoke after the sun had come up”) that tested your credulity. Now they’re trashing him.

  17. “for the most part the academics and other elites in charge these days do not and are actively determined to destroy our respect for our past and make us hate our own country.” neo

    “By their fruits shall ye know them”. an obscure 1st century rural Jewish carpenter

    Cornhead,

    “The Dems won’t like it when China dominates the world.”

    Count on it, they and the RINOs will be the first to openly collaborate with the ChiComs. Of course, many perhaps most are and have been covertly collaborating with China as soon as there was money to be made.

    Cicero,

    Rasmussen found in a poll that, “Thirty-one percent of African-Americans said most blacks are racist,”

    That is probably a good metric by which to evaluate the % of blacks who hate America and wish for its destruction.

    Those on the left who hate America are not “democrats”, they are Marxists pretending to be liberal democrats.

    Here is how a democrat acts; “at a dinner honoring 49 American Nobel Prize winners, John F. Kennedy famously quipped, “I think that this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

    Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan,

    “Politics stops at the water’s edge”

  18. Griffin:

    Well at least they haven’t been allowed to, mostly peacefully, remodel or deconstruct Montpelier, at least not yet. If these leftist locusts are kicked out, expect destruction in the name of justice.

    Leftist billionaires actively at work, like Orcs.

  19. melody barnes ted kennedy staffer, obama policy adviser, on health care and obesity, board of veritas (health care) and booz allen hamilton (the people that vetted snowden, and the washington yard killer) aspen institute, like a viral plague,

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