Tired Historian

Actual historian, sick of this shit. Destroying plantation narratives. Writes on history of eugenics and hypodescent.

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

Please help me denounce this shameful lie --> Mount Vernon's social media accounts continue their shameful campaign promoting white women slaveholders of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association as trailblazers of social change. THIS IS A LIE. #twitterstorians #slaveryarchive

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@MountVernon “An outlet to affect social change” — many of these women OWNED SLAVES. So “what social change,” exactly? Do you even know? Stop gaslighting. Stop bending the truth to sound relevant.

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@aharristweets @fifthofhennessy @MountVernon @ericaadunbar As white males, you don’t get the final say on this. Sorry. Go reenact your hypernationaliast wet dreams in a tent in the woods or something. Leave the history to actual scholars and BIPOC.

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@aharristweets @fifthofhennessy @MountVernon @ericaadunbar Also, memorials & exhibitions aren’t enough. They never were. Mount Vernon is diametrically opposed to #BlackLivesMatter. Statements made by the estate & Bradburn are more concerned w/ donations & GW valorization than apologizing for historically exploiting & diminishing Blacks.

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

Love that only white males are commenting. Pretty telling.

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@MountVernon What we’d like to see? The estate’s acknowledgment of centuries of Black pain, you saying the names of Mount Vernon’s enslaved individuals, how the Washingtons amassed wealth because of the work of people they held captive, you know, the truth, not pandering to your base. #SMDay

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@MountVernon @DouglasBradburn

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@MountVernon What we’d like to see? The estate’s acknowledgment of centuries of Black pain, you saying the names of Mount Vernon’s enslaved individuals, how the Washingtons amassed wealth because of the work of people they held captive, you know, the truth, not pandering to your base. #SMDay

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@DouglasBradburn @kawulf @michele_norris @MountVernon @WashPapers Speaking of donations, @DouglasBradburn— why not donate your $315,889 yearly salary and your $32,031 bonus to @MountVernon or, better yet, institutions that actually care about Black lives? https://t.co/RGCSNLUVfq @analuciaraujo_ @marthasjones_ @HistoryGonWrong

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@GWBooks Two White males chatting about street protests is unacceptable in today’s climate. Read the room.

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@MountVernon The whippings by overseers? “But they were insolent!” you cry. Or, how about GW’s step-granddaugther Eleanor Custis calling enslaved Blacks “the dark torment of our lives?” What about those stories? They are there, but you hide them. #MountVernonisComplicit

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@MountVernon FACT: You still have not acknowlegded Black pain and suffering by the hands of White enslavers, Jim Crow, and this country’s pervasive, systematic racism. Do we need to give you chapter and verse about how Black pain was real at Mount Vernon?

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@TJMonticello @MountVernon What’s the estate’s official position, @DouglasBradburn?

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

@TJMonticello Thank you! Your move, @MountVernon.

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

Your move, @MountVernon.

[Monticello @TJMonticello]

"We condemn the violence and inequities that Black Americans continue to endure because of systemic racism in America, rooted in our nation’s history with race-based slavery."

A statement from Monticello: https://t.co/XvJ48LAkzY

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

#BlackOutTuesday #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

Today, @MountVernon chose to celebrate the birthday of #MarthaWashington, a white female slaveowner, in a tone-deaf post. Instead of engaging in dialogue, they deleted the post:

[Tired Historian @Tired_Historian]

How can @MountVernon lead the discussion on slavery? How can it use its massive platform to address 400 years of Black pain, as well as the nation’s current events? What’s the official stance here? Nothing has been said. You have a responsibility.