Brooklyn Museum adds slavery disclaimer
to George Washington portrait
Washington Times,
by
Sean Salai
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/27/2021 7:03:12 PM
The Brooklyn Museum has added a new feature to its 1776 oil-on-canvas painting of Continental Army Gen. George Washington—a description card that notes his ownership of slaves despite defending the self-evident truth that all men are created equal.
The portrait shows Washington standing in military dress uniform with Boston in the far background. It was painted by Charles Willson Peale and commissioned by Continental Congress President John Hancock just before he famously signed the Declaration of Independence.(Snip)“Washington enslaved more than 300 people prior to and during his tenure as the nation’s first president,” the card reads in part.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/27/2021 7:23:46 PM (No. 1020394)
The communist state of Washiongton should change its name to Stalingrad - even though stalin killed 10s of millions!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/27/2021 7:25:57 PM (No. 1020395)
When are the woke liberals going to toss heels-up-Harris, since her ancestors owned slaves?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/27/2021 7:26:34 PM (No. 1020396)
The card adds NOTHING to my understanding of George Washington as a General or first President of the United States. If the picture of George Washington were of him at his Mt. Vernon, Virginia farm, the card would be appropriate. The constant caving and pandering to add "context" to the overall knowledge of a person relating to ownership of slaves does nothing but serve to try and diminish their contributions and accomplishments in the founding of this country. If the race baiters would focus on the good Washington did rather than every transgression, real and imagined they might actually learn something about their history.
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skacmar 12/27/2021 7:27:40 PM (No. 1020398)
I wonder if Black historians would apply the same requirement to Black's who cooperated with and profited from the slave trade back in Africa and in the US. They might find that a lot of Black people in Black history Museums would require the same disclaimer cards on any display about.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/27/2021 7:41:38 PM (No. 1020402)
Did the disclaimer card happen to inform viewers that slavery was completely legal under the laws of the Continental Congress at the time? It is illegal, now. Of course. It is wrong on many another level as well, but it WAS legal at the time UNTIL it was out lawed. Learn your own history.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Laotzu 12/27/2021 7:43:20 PM (No. 1020404)
Yes, you must remember that Washington was a slaveholder.
But you don't dare say that Lincoln was a Republican; Jeff Davis was a Democrat; Byrd was a Klansman; Brandon is demented; Alec is a murderer; and Andy, Bill and the whole bunch are a bunch of alley cats.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/27/2021 7:52:45 PM (No. 1020412)
Some of my ancestors owned a lot of slaves. My gg grandfather was the largest slaveholder in the state Of Georgia. I have been asked if I was ashamed of him. No...I wasn’t around in 1850. I am sorry that he had a hand in importing them here. Considering everything now, we should have picked the cotton ourselves.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 12/27/2021 7:58:31 PM (No. 1020414)
Following the woke liberals' logic there should be a disclaimer beside pictures of Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who by Executive Order, put more than 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast into Internment Camps from 1942 to1945, two-thirds of whom were U.S.-born citizens. And the U.S. Supreme Court held that race was not
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 12/27/2021 8:00:19 PM (No. 1020416)
That race was not a factor and the internment was a military necessity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Grounded 12/27/2021 8:08:49 PM (No. 1020421)
I am so torn. My grandmother's people were slave owners and my grandfather's people were fierce abolitionists. How can I function in the woke world? Is there somewhere to get therapy? For the better part of seven decades I never gave it much thought, but now, since becoming enlightened, I just don't know what to do. /s
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/27/2021 8:09:38 PM (No. 1020423)
I think the historical-truth DISCLAIMER is a great idea so we ought to get to work on one to hang on the statue of Martin Luther King, Junior for his, how shall we say it, less-than-sterling character qualities and activities. And while we're at it, let's hang a big DISCLAIMER on the George Floyd memorial walls, huh? And also Michael Brown. And Trayvon Martin. Need I go on?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
padiva 12/27/2021 8:22:55 PM (No. 1020424)
Tape a thong to every photo/portrait of BJC.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Michaelus 12/27/2021 8:27:02 PM (No. 1020426)
Except Washington never "enslaved" anyone. They were enslaved back in sunny West Africa decades before George was born.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/27/2021 9:06:52 PM (No. 1020447)
Shouldn’t the Dimokkkrap party have such a disclaimer tattooed on it? It did everything that is to be complained about, from fighting for the slave interests to jim crow and institutional racism to fighting against the civil rights act.
Disband it and confiscate its members’ wealth and then distribute it per capita to every person of color in the world.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Scramus 12/27/2021 9:09:59 PM (No. 1020449)
Can't enslave the King's subjects without the King's permission.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/28/2021 2:52:33 AM (No. 1020570)
Not surprising. Isn't Brooklyn where that commie AOC rules?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mifla 12/28/2021 3:04:34 AM (No. 1020577)
Will every portrait in the museum have a description card pointing out their poitically incorrect past actions?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/28/2021 4:01:16 AM (No. 1020599)
Then all of the statues, portraits and other remembrances of George Floyd should feature a copy of his thick criminal record!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/28/2021 6:57:25 AM (No. 1020641)
I suspect the founding fathers are all gathered around the campfire tonight wondering “Why did we bother?”
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rytwng 12/28/2021 6:57:28 AM (No. 1020642)
The NBA and the NFL are slave owners today.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JackBurton 12/28/2021 7:55:20 AM (No. 1020692)
Britain did not finally out law slavery until 1833.
By then Washington had died and, in his will, not only freed all his slaves but gave them money out of his estate to give them, not only freedom but, independence.
I'm jake with the note under Wshington's portrait... IF THEY DID THE SAME FOR THE PORTRAIT OF EACH OF THEIR KINGS FROM THE START OF ENGLAND THROUGH 1833.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Faithfully 12/28/2021 8:20:26 PM (No. 1021335)
King Solomon owned slaves and kept a harem so...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 12/28/2021 9:32:30 PM (No. 1021457)
President Washington freed his slaves at the end of his life. More information here
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/ten-facts-about-washington-slavery/
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The card is a good first step, but wouldn't the cause of Equity be better served by allowing bLACK people to tear it to shreds? Give it a year or so and that's where we'll be, just as the communists promised.