Fox Information devoted a section on Sunday to complaining that Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation makes guests really feel unhealthy by educating them on true features of American historical past.
“Fox & Pals” weekend hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth introduced up an article revealed within the New York Put up Saturday that accused the Charlottesville, Virginia, residence of the Founding Father of “going woke” and providing guests “a harangue on the horrors of slavery.”
Jefferson owned greater than 600 folks in his lifetime, together with 400 who had been enslaved at Monticello. The property is owned by the nonprofit Thomas Jefferson Basis, which works to protect its historical past and educate folks concerning the third American president.
In line with Hegseth, Monticello is now all about “how horrible Thomas Jefferson was as a result of he was a slave proprietor” and presents a “one-sided standpoint that makes Thomas Jefferson a foul man in his own residence.”
Campos-Duffy complained that there's a signal within the museum that questions if Jefferson’s line within the Declaration of Independence that “all males are created equal” is being lived as much as within the U.S. as we speak.
She additionally took challenge with an internationally bestselling anti-racism guide on the market within the present store.
“All of those form of books which can be damning of America and suggesting that we’re nonetheless a racist nation are on the market within the present store,” she added.
In one other section, Campos-Duffy argued that there have been slaves all through human historical past however folks shouldn’t be “ashamed” of leaders who owned them.
“I get that. It’s a horrible historical past we must always speak about, however we must always not really feel responsible or ashamed of our leaders after we go and go to the individuals who introduced us the Structure, the Declaration of Independence. You allow feeling that manner,” she stated.
The Thomas Jefferson Basis has owned and restored Monticello since 1923, and offers sources on many features of Jefferson’s life and writings, with a imaginative and prescient to “carry historical past ahead into nationwide and international dialogues.”
In response to the New York Put up’s article, a Monticello spokesperson stated: “Our objective is to current an sincere, inclusive historical past of Monticello in all its features in addition to Jefferson’s contributions to the founding of the nation,”
Hegseth accused the folks behind the group of being “all leftists.”
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