[Drew68]

Newsflash: People touring historical sites don't want to be lectured to and are making this known.

[rightwingcrazy]

“But some visitors, who remain overwhelmingly white”

...not that there’s anything wrong with that...

[Don W]

The first slaves in the Americas were NOT black folk.

Look up “Indentured Servitude”. Additionally, look up the person that owned the first black slave in North America, you’ll be quite surprised...

[indthkr]

Social Justice Warriors running historical sites - bump for later....

[OttawaFreeper]

I really did not see anything of this when I went to see both Mount Vernon and Monticello. At Monticello, you could do a tour that gives more of an in depth discussion about slavery, but I elected to do the garden tour (conducted by a lovely and knowledgeable lady, this one was basically all adults and the other one was filled with noisy schoolkids).
At James Madison’s Montpelier, there was mention and discussion of slavery at the place during Madison’s day, but it was also done in the appropriate manner and context.

[Redleg Duke]

This isn’t new. I was at Monticello back in about 2003, and the guide kept using the term “enslaved” to the point that I challenged her on it, and she called me a filthy racist.

[Billthedrill]

Went to a park, got a guilt trip, didn’t come back. Get woke, go broke.

[max americana]

“she “didn’t come to hear a lecture on how the white people treated slaves.”

****

Exactly. God knows how many times I told leftards to STFU about their politics and stick to their actual job. The most recent one was this stupid Uber driver 3 weeks ago whose sole goal is STFU and drive me to a nearby studio and not talk about Trump for one effing second. Complained to Uber and gave this asshole 1 star, plus UBER refunded me the ride because it made me “uncomfortable”.

[KC_Lion]

Glad some people are finally making themselves heard saying "enough with this!"

These places should respect you enough not to lecture you about something you had absolutely no power over.

[caww]

Nobody needs that drum beat today......these are just people who can’t let go of the past.

[cyclotic]

My last tour of Monticello about a year ago was led by an excellent historian who happened to be black.

He taught us the history of Monticello and spoke little of the slaves. He did mention a couple specific slaves who help positions of high authority.

[VanDeKoik]

They dont need a moral lecture.

But you go on a history tour, are these people expecting them to not mention it at all at some point?

[robowombat]

Sandling sounds like the typical lib ass. I suggest all to read Uncle Tom's Cabin in which there are far more positive than evil Southerners. There are lots of discussions about the ‘peculiar institution’ but in none are the people of the South vilified and traduced. Mrs. Stowe was fond of visiting friends across the Ohio River from Cincinnati and many were slave holders. In Kentucky she had a chance to hear lots of conversation and plantation anecdotes about the positive and negative of the ‘peculiar institution’. Uncle Tom is presented as a sort of nascent capitalist. After he gets sold to Simon Legree he finds Legree's plantation to be very badly managed as well as suffering from the capricious brutality of the master. He keeps telling Legree of innovations that he should implement (including better treatment of his people) that would boast productivity and pull his plantation out of its downward spiral. It is a fascinating book, even though it is long by today's standards and short on action as compared to conversation. I doubt this turkey has ever read it.

[RandallFlagg]

Okay.
Don’t say, “White people.”

Say instead, “Democrats.”

[DuncanWaring]

Should have asked the slavery-flogging guide “What do you have to say about the slave markets active in Africa TODAY?”

[Meatspace]

People are attempting to erase our history.

[Carriage Hill]

“We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized,” Sandling said.

No we aren’t, you ignorant moron. That was settled in 1865.

[livius]

That’s good. The important thing was not that Jefferson or anybody else owned slaves...and at that time even free blacks in some English speaking areas and in Spanish Florida owned slaves themselves...but what is important is everything else he did, thought and wrote, which has benefitted all Americans of any color.

But I guess that doesn’t matter anymore. Once the left puts you on their “racist” list, it’s all over.

Jefferson was a brilliant man, and even if you don’t agree with him on some things, he was crucial to the US. And that’s what people want to hear about.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...an effort is underway to deal more honestly with the brutal institution that the Founding Fathers relied on to build their homes and their wealth: slavery...yeah, the slaves did the grunt work of tending the plants, but Jefferson provided the capital, vision, and administrative skills to fund and construct the gardens and estate - Monticello could have been built without the "brutal institution" - it could not have been built without Jefferson......

[DoodleDawg]

Newsflash: People touring historical sites don't want to be lectured to and are making this known.

Newsflash: Sometimes history isn't pleasant.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

article: "… an effort is underway to deal more honestly with the brutal institution …"

Slavery might have been immoral but "brutal". I think not. They should cite some examples of George Washington's, Nellie Custis's, or Thomas Jefferson's "brutality". It didn't happen.