Summary
The National Park Service removed Harriet Tubman’s image and quote from its “Underground Railroad” webpage, along with references to slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act.
The revision now emphasizes “American ideals of liberty” and downplays historical realities.
Historians and scholars condemned the move as a distortion of history and erasure of Tubman’s legacy.
The change aligns with broader Trump administration efforts to eliminate DEI content across federal sites, which critics say suppresses discussions of race, identity, and historical truth.
The white washing is just pathetic. MAGAts a such snowflakes.
Yeah, well what’s the end game here …that white USAians never did anything bad, or that African Americans never did anything?
Something like that.
This is about flexing their power. They are showing that they won and they are going to force their values down everyone else’s throat.
Don’t belittle them by calling them pathetic. Call it what it is.
This is fascism.
Fascism is pathetic. It’s extremely dangerous and causes massive suffering, but it’s also pathetic.
Oh, ok, so now Civilization VII is more historically accurate than the National Park Service. That’s… ugh
At this rate Django Unchained might end up being more historically accurate than our official records…
This, and all the other sites they’ve taken down, are meant to be freely accessible to everyone. This is what your taxes actually pay for. The government runs a massive research operation, and library, for everyone. This is a book burning.
They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family…
Then let’s find
someonesomething else to burn
Proof this trump administration hates black people? I think so.
New quote:
“Immigrants mysteriously disappeared from their jobs in the South and reappeared in the North. No women were involved in this process.”
All of the workers in the south worked really hard for their boss and earned a promotion and moved into luxury in the north. All of these people were hardworking Americans and none of them were black
And provide some hope? Nah, if they are erasing history then they will just say “No slave ever successfully escaped. They were required by law to be returned if found and the North didn’t follow the law. The North, those law breakers, were trying to pick a fight for decades. The Noble South was attacked and lost their righteous cause due to brotherly betrayal.”
what the fuck are they going to ultimately say the underground railroad was? What will they say it was helping who escape? THIS WHOLE THING IS STUPID!
These are the same folks that say the civil war was fought for “states rights”.
They have no problem with ignoring details.
It was a fun place people could pretend to be trains! Choo chooo!!
No way would they put up anything that suggested someone could be trains.
Hey man, get with the times, that name makes Hesgeth angy
Enola still sounds a bit woman-y. Maybe replace it with something manly like Donald.
The Enola Gay becomes the Elon Straight!
Or, to be the correct amount of condescending and dehumanizing, the “Elon Normal.”
This fucking guy 😹
what did I do?
To be replaced by “Harold Whiteman”, a dapper man of Nordic ancestry, who helped white slaves escape from white slavery with the help of the friendly neighborhood watch organization, the KKK!
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
might be a bit pretentious to quote 1984 but boy, try telling me the right wing reality distortion field doesn’t exist.
That’s legitimately why the republicans want to rename the Gulf of Mexico
What do you mean “rename”? It’s always been the Gulf of America.
“That’s what Jesus called it. That’s what my daddy called it. And it’s worked out just fine, since…”
Ouch, this physically hurt haha
we have always been allied with eurasia. we have always been at war with east asia
Not pretentious at all. This is the exact thing Orwell was warning about. Never a better time to quote it.
what are you talking about, the underground railroad has always been the 4/5 subway line in NYC that connects the Trump Building in Wall Street with the Trump Tower in 5th Ave, right?
As if that fuck would ever take the train
Soon you’ll only get “Did you mean 'the subway’?” search results with “underground railroad”.
“Yeah, about your pamphlet…I’m not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945.”
“Everyone was on vacation.”
“What are you talking about, Germany invaded Poland in 1939.”
“We were invited! Punch was served. Check with Poland!”
“You can’t just ignore those years! Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism’s stranglehold on Germany!”
“Nope…He left to manage a Dairy Queen!”
“A Dairy Queen? That’s preposterous!”
“I will hear NO MORE insinuations about the German people. NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!”
Disgraceful.
Had the campaign to put Tubman on the $20 succeeded, they’d be removing her from it.
In other news, Harriet Tubman has been collecting social security for 200 years and her remains have been deported back to her own country of El Salvador.
Proof this trump administration hates black people? I think so.
I BEG YOUR PARDON…
Jesus fucking Christ
They’re reading 1984 and applying the wrong part of it.
I wonder if black republicans will go back to picking cotton in order to own the libs.
Of course they will
