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.
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.”
“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!”
Oh, ok, so now Civilization VII is more historically accurate than the National Park Service. That’s… ugh
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.
The modern iteration of book burning creates a lot less smoke and noise, so it can fly under the radar.
One of my more fun conspiracies is that we have been going through this cycle for eons. There’s no previous record of this beyond myths of giants and angels because eventually society gets so advanced permeant records of its existence cease. Everything is digital. It can be erased with the bat of an eye. This is why all we can find is carvings from the beginning of our iteration with memories from people as to what existed before the crash and then it gets lost. We look at it as myths but maybe they weren’t. Maybe they were more advanced than us and pushed back to the stone age.
They’re just following orders. Like a good nazi
Holy fucking shit! This is it! I’ve had it! WTF!!!
When is the next protest?!
Holy flying fucking Jesus!
There was a really big one on Saturday.
I know, when is the next one? One is not enough. Apparently these guys need us to watch everything they do. Like two year olds but evil and nazi.
The same people that organized Saturday’s protests put together this Lemmy community: https://50501.chat/
It looks like April 19th is the next one.
Thank you!
Dunno man. Shits gettin wild and isnt stopping anytime soon.
No need to wait. You got this.
Fucking racists
They’re reading 1984 and applying the wrong part of it.
At this rate Django Unchained might end up being more historically accurate than our official records…
Proof this trump administration hates black people? I think so.
I wonder if black republicans will go back to picking cotton in order to own the libs.
Of course they will
The articles title is clickbait, they didn’t remove the references, they rewrote them.
Edit: I am not denying that it’s fucked up that they are touching this part of history, I just thought CNN’s title was clickbaity.
They rewrote them in a way to de-emphasize her involvement and contribution and to over emphasize the involvement and contribution of white people. And slavery has also been de-emphasized as well.
It’s an attempt to subtly erase black history. This is another white nationalist agenda item Trump’s administration is crossing of their to-do list.
When you rewrite something, you first remove something.
Disgraceful.
Had the campaign to put Tubman on the $20 succeeded, they’d be removing her from it.
Proof this trump administration hates black people? I think so.
