Conservatives Are Big Mad They Have To Learn About Slavery At Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Mansion

By Zack Linly, Newsone

[…] For about a quarter of a millennium in this country, human beings were the property of other human beings who worked them day and night without compensation, bought and sold them away from their family members, physically hurt them for being disobedient, hunted them down and sometimes lynched them for trying to escape and made it so their children and their children’s children were born into that same hell.

Not only that, but many of the founders of this country engaged in and profited from slavery and lived their lives with the institution serving as their benefactor. And white America’s response to all of this is seemingly—”Eh, but what about all the other stuff they did (for white people)?

So, white people are big mad that the tour of Thomas Jefferson’s famous Monticello mansion is focusing on the third president’s history as a slaver.

Let’s start with the Three Stooges of white tears over at Fox & Friends, who described the tear as “going woke” and blindsiding visitors with “a harangue on the horrors of slavery,” citing a New York Post article likely written by some other fragile white person upset that other fragile white people had to endure history that made them uncomfortable.

“It’s overwhelmingly negative!” Fox host Pete Hegseth cried. “You go to visit the legacy of Thomas Jefferson and you learn about what a terrible person Thomas Jefferson was.”

Hegseth said one visitor noted that “half of the comments on Jefferson were critical.”

First of all, if only “half the comments” about a lifelong slave owner and racist who believed Black people were intellectually inferior were “critical,” that means the other half of the comments were non-critical, right? Is literal balance not enough balance for white tourists? Are white people so entitled that they think the “critical” parts of their heroes’ stories should be footnotes rather than central parts of said stories?

Read of the rest of Linly’s scathing opinion and see the news clip in question.