George Washington and the Tale of Ona Judge (REPLAY)

What a Creep

Margo Donohue

True Crime, Entertainment News, News, Comedy

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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What a Creep (Replay!)
Season 20, Episode 7
George Washington and the Tale of Ona Judge

George Washington is the “Father of Our Country” and one of American history's most revered Founding Fathers. We heard tales of how brave he was and that he could not tell a lie. He also famously refused to create a fiefdom with the office of President, which means we are not stuck with someone in office unless they are duly elected.
Like many white people of his time, he enslaved people. This is a fact, and though not unusual in his peer group--it's not a great look for a person who is enshrined all across the United States. People want to downplay his racism and evil acts. Listening to Bill Maher and Elon Musk minimize his actions made us realize we need to dive into one of the first President’s most heinous acts by talking about badass Ona Judge. An enslaved woman who escaped from the President’s home and remained free despite his relentless pursuit of her.
This woman is an American hero whom everyone who truly believes in liberty and freedom needs to learn about and memorialize her contribution to history.

Trigger Warning: Racism and slavery

Sources for this episode: Twisted Philly Podcast George Washington Wiki Daily Mail Oney Judge Wiki Drunk History with Jen Kirkman Mt. Vernon.or colonial Williamsburg, Virginia video never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of the Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Erica Armstrong Dunbar at SMU Black Heritage Trail videoThe White House Historical Association The National Park Service
Zinn Education Project Beyond the Bell Tours (Philadelphia)Museum of the American Revolution Ona Judge’s 1845 interview with The Liberator History.com The Fugitive Slave ActsNew York Times 2015 op-ed https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/opinion/george-washington-slave-catcher.html?searchResultPosition=3

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0:00.0	Welcome to what a creep, the show with Margotanoi and Sonia Mansfield talking about creeps from the past to the present.
0:08.0	This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst.
0:15.0	From two nice ladies who want the world to be a Creep, this is Margotano, and my cohort and
0:30.5	creep at two, as always is the amazing soanya mansefield hey so yeah
0:34.7	hello my friend
0:37.6	this is an episode that we
0:39.8	aired last year at this time it's about George Washington and we're doing it this
0:47.1	week because it's a holiday week it's one of those like it's Canada day and
0:51.6	it's July 4th and it's a America if yeah we're not gonna curse here I'll
0:58.1	wait till after the intro but yeah we we just taken the week off so we are doing this special episode today. We want to just wish everybody a happy fourth
1:07.8	Be safe
1:09.8	Don't run around with firecrackers.
1:12.8	Don't go around with that shit.
1:15.0	Don't hold on to your fireworks, y'all.
1:17.0	That's how you lose hands and fingers.
1:20.2	Take care of your dogs and your pets.
1:22.2	They're all very scared right now with all the fireworks that are going off and also it's okay to not feel very patriotic right now.
1:31.0	All of those things are true. All those things are true. So just keep that in mind.
1:36.4	We will be back next week with a new episode of What a Creep and also this week
1:42.2	we are replaying on dorking out our episode about
1:46.4	Beverly Hills cop because Beverly Hills cop three or four is this is four is being released so we're releasing this
1:56.7	episode without talking about that one but that's how these things go yes
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