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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am personally tired of being told by those who have never experienced racism, what racism is or feels like. Those who choose to remain willfully ignorant are the problem. The frequent fieldtrips to Mt. Vernon with the gleeful tour of the slave quarters where the true conditions of slavery are down played to the reading of TKPMB[/quote]

Gleeful tour of the slave quarters? Please expand on this.[/quote]

I have been on multiple fieldtrips with my younger children to both Mt. Vernon and Monticello. On one trip the statement was made by another parent, "These were the good ole days when meals were freshly made." Also, tours of the quarters never focus or discuss the hardship of slavery, but had the talking points of how slaves were creative and made do with what they had to make life pleasant as possible. The tour guides are fixated on the architecture, gifts that remain in the house from foreign governments, and other details that are note worthy, but take away from the true history of how the plantation operated. Oh, and the cherry on top for Monticello is how Thomas Jefferson was truly conflicted over slavery parting speech. Yet, no acknowledgement of Sally Hemmings or how he failed to grant freedom of his slaves in his will upon his death. These historic landmarks don't address the ugly history or paint an accurate picture of the history. [/quote]

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