6d ago

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

www.cnn.com /2025/04/06/us/national-parks-underground-railroad-harriet-tubman/index.html

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.

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6d ago

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

www.cnn.com /2025/04/06/us/national-parks-underground-railroad-harriet-tubman/index.html

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6d ago

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

www.cnn.com /2025/04/06/us/national-parks-underground-railroad-harriet-tubman/index.html

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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!
- "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
  
  Not pretentious at all. This is the exact thing Orwell was warning about. Never a better time to quote it.
- It was a fun place people could pretend to be trains! Choo chooo!!
  
  The Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom on Japan
  
  No way would they put up anything that suggested someone could be trains.
- These are the same folks that say the civil war was fought for "states rights".
  They have no problem with ignoring details.
- Soon you'll only get "Did you mean 'the subway'?" search results with "underground railroad".
- 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!
- 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

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
  
  Then let's find ~~someone~~ something else to burn

"Eliminate DEI content" actually means "government-sponsored open bigotry".
- Yeah, this isn’t DEI, and the media needs to call that out.
  
  If by "this," you mean the reference towards Tubman, then you're wrong. Talking about the accomplishments of anyone who isn't a straight white Christian man IS promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion! DEI is a good thing! Opposing it is explicitly racist!

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."

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.

The white washing is just pathetic. MAGAts a such snowflakes.
- 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.
  
  the fascists want to be acary and hate being called pathetic because it means we're not scared of them. the fascists are pathetic
- 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.

"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

Jesus fucking Christ

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.
- Makes sense, after all she was a DEI hire.

Fucking racists

They're just following orders. Like a good nazi

I wonder if black republicans will go back to picking cotton in order to own the libs.
- Of course they will

Wow, I'm so glad I live in this stupid fucking country. 🤦‍♂️

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.
- No need to wait. You got this.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

Proof this trump administration hates black people? I think so.

They’re reading 1984 and applying the wrong part of it.

Nothing to see here, just a country speed running towards fascism.

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.

Disgraceful.
Had the campaign to put Tubman on the $20 succeeded, they'd be removing her from it.

I BEG YOUR PARDON...

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coins-and-medals/commemorative-coins/harriet-tubman
these are valid currency. spend them.
edit: it doesn't look like they're shipping yet. but i can't wait to let a few jingle around my pocket!
- Why the fuck does the US Mint website need javascript to be enabled? Fuck that shit.
  Also, I'm not sure I'd spend them as it wouldn't surprise me if this administration stops making/shipping them. Could end up being worth something in the long term (assuming USD is worth anything)

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.

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This is fascism.