I had no idea who she was until I watched the film named after her (I'm not American) but it was an inspiring and life affirming watch, and she was an amazing woman.
This is an act of pure spite.
Thin skinned racist idiots.
Spend your summer vacation in Canada. Learn some American history, spend whatever money you have left, and show them that not all Americans are MAGA yahoos.
People who are resistant to showing history in its entirety cannot stop it from being shown, no matter how hard they try. What's in the dark, always comes to light.
The RepubliKlans hate American history, but they sure do love themselves some Confedate history. The Confederacy was a cabal of traitors and so is the RepubliKlan party. That will never change. The only thing to do now is make the GOP as relevant as the CSA. #dustbinofhistory
I read that this morning and I'm appalled.
It goes beyond whitewashing and really rewrites history. There is an attempt to deny slavery in our history.
I want them all to drop over permanently ...They are stripping us of our history, creating misleading voids in the narrative, making us unsee our past. The evil that must be removed is them. It makes me want to start a movement of counter-docents around monuments and historical markers.
I truly hope when this whole shit-show is over we can go back and see how they really made a concerted effort to downplay or erase minorities from our history books. Racism at its worst just to try and make their own constituents feel better about themselves.
This defilement of our African American and abolitionist history recalls their Klan attacks on Jackie Robinson and the heroes of Iwo Jima….
Which reminds me of this glorious ballad. They’ll try to outlaw Johnny Cash. Let them. He was already an outlaw. Let’s join him.
You see it's because now it's not going to matter if you're black or white or brown even to be a slave it's going to matter on your bank account and you better have seven figures in it or they won't be calling you slaves they'll just be calling you indentured servants
The U.S: erasing the central role of slavery and Black resistance in the history of the Underground Railroad, sanitizing the narrative to make it more palatable and less confrontational about America’s legacy of racial oppression.
This beyond the pale (no pun intended). How in the world does the Underground Railroad have anything to do with "DEI"? What's the next move - claiming WWII internment of Japanese people promoted harmony with Whites?
I’m am so sick and tired of this administration trying to erase the truth. Anything that puts whites in a less than positive light is stricken. Stop trying to erase history and re-write it. The fkng lies must stop
Same here. Didn't we litigate all this stuff in the late 60s-90s. Now my daughter & granddaughter have less rights than I did after I graduated from university in 1979.
The Bigot King
• "C" for "colored" on applications
• Frantic rush to Muslim ban
• Central Park Five
• Charlottesville Neo-Nazis "very fine people"
• "Sh*thole" countries
• Mexico: Drugs, crime, rape, and the insane
• "Go back to where you came from"
• Accountants wearing yarmulkes
• Cult of Hatred
WTF is wrong with these white people will they do the same with holocaust written history or pictures God forbid that white children learn history about all of the pain and suffering their ancestors caused to the native Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Japanese people
It’s better to seethe
Trained seethe is what they know
Making fun of other joyful
And burning the whole place down yah
An uncle once said out loud “these people have like a sign on their back that says kick me I like it “
Being white I cannot and will not defend my fellow men and women who voted for this racist, mysogynistic, narrcistic psychopath, but being of color and voting for him seems to have been a mistake of epic proportions.
This is some nazi-level propaganda shit, and it's the Repub party doing it.
Everyone should spend time watching documentaries on how the nazis came to power and their actions to dismantle democracy and institute cruel human suffering. It's uncanny how much Repubs today use the same nazi playbook.
These people also forget that when slave catchers came to town in this era in the north, they were often forcibly run out of town at the point of a gun, might be a history lesson that they should take note of.
This BS is only temporary. Vote these creatures out in 3 years, 7 months. That's how and when America can begin to recover and restore its morals, values & history.
“Race” is the central concern of all fascists. If we look closely at any MAGA decision, EO, mass firing, mass funding cut, etc., we will discover that racist antagonism is the goal, not the byproduct.
I would take a page out of the true graffiti artist’s playbook. What they remove, replace. And keep replacing. There are some of us who would be willing to do that, accepting the consequences.
Can you imagine the prison conversation, I’m in for talking about the Underground Railroad. Signmeup!
She was not only involved in the Underground Railroad, but also as an armed scout and spy for the Union during the Civil War. She was nicknamed “General” , is credited as the first woman to lead a military assault and was posthumously made a one-star brigadier general in Maryland’s National Guard.
America might try to erase black culture but the world knows better. The majority population worldwide is people of color. White are the minority and its getting worse as father time take effect.
He fired all the black, women, & LGBT people in the highest ranks of every division of our military. He fired all black, women, & LGBT people at the highest echelons of our government. Besides disappearing immigrants, his regime is erasing the entire history of black roots & culture in the US.
His regime is "trying" to erase the entire history of black roots and culture in the US. It's not possible for them to do this unless the rest of us go along with it. 🤷 https://revolutionbooks.org/african-american-history
AGREED! It's so obvious, what is going on. That waste of human flesh, Hegseth is having all the black historical figures removed from the military, as well. They think if they take it out, noone will notice! They are SO fucking stupid! In this information age, you CANNOT erase history. I JUST 🤦♀️
You can. And I'd argue that when lots of it is electronic, it's even easier. Americans are already primed to believe what they read, Fox has done a good job of that. And the vast majority won't look very deep at all for answers.
Are they going to remove every book that has ever been printed from every private/public: town, city, county, state library, school, institution? Book store, thrift shop, antique shop, home? Not to mention, it's just in this country. The rest of the world also has the info.
I get all that. Totally not my point. Most people in the US already don't bother to look that deep for info. On the whole, misinformation is already winning. Like trying to convince a flat-earther it's round - doesn't matter that the info is there, they just won't believe you. It's insidious.
This attempt to white wash history is going in the history books as a pathetic dying cry of white supremacy. I hope when these pages are restored a footnote is added to immortalize this fucking abomination because... WOW. Future historians are gonna just be shaking their heads over this dumb shit.
The article is somewhat misleading. It's true that the NPS page referred to in the article doesn't mention slavery in the first 2 paragraphs of the write-up but it does mention slavery in the rest of the write-up. Here's the link 2 the page if people want to check it out. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/what-is-the-underground-railroad.htm
It's true that the Trump Administration has whitewashed many aspects of American history but it has not yet completely erased the Underground Railroad from American history.
With archives, data centers, personal servers, books, historians, and actual living people - the Sieg Heil Nazis think they can somehow erase the history of Black Americans in this country. Only imbecilic MAGA fools like the two crackheads co presidents would think such shit like that.
JFC white people in America are so damaged. Sorry, white people, that you didn’t get enough credit for the, checks notes, Underground Railroad. (NB, “actually” comments not needed, I’ve already hung out with my 6 year old nephew today).
Who writes this crap?
The whitewashing of history, removing and unpleasant and disturbing historical FACTS harms our ancestors and descendants. We are doomed to repeat the ugly being erased.
What the hell is wrong with these people? You can take it down, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to forget. Come, November 2026 Trump and his minions will see how we never forget.
This cannot stand. We cannot let them erase us for who we all are. This shit has to stop and return to what is necessary for truth to be at the root of who we are. This is OUTRAGEOUS. AND WE MUST FIGHT BACK. THIS IS THE HANDIWORK OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION. LET US COMMIT TO ERASE THEM.
For races as well as woman no white guy just “gave” freedom. It was always fought for first and then begrudgingly given. And it’s always trying to be taken away again.
Also that slavery wasn’t all that bad, since slaves got “free time” and living in the US was soooo much better than being in their native country! Thanks white people!
• Easily justifies the Saddam long drop for every MAGA voter.
• Every fucking one of them.
• No black hood. Just like Mr. Hussein (Dec. 2006).
• Streamed live, YouTube.
Visit any of the Cical War battlegrounds near DC.
The signage all reads like Lost Cause and Daughters of the Confederacy propaganda and that was 10-15 years ago.
these fucking fascist racist whores in the illegitimate tWump
admin who think they can whitewash the history,the truth ,of our nation by removing words from a website because they are so afraid of the black & must feel so inferior to people of color are s a d .
They are pathetic in their weakness.
And make no mistake: this is just a foot in the door to eliminating from public discourse discussion about the underground railroad and what made it necessary.
I'm so old that when I see that acronym I think of cathode ray tube. Republicans don't know what CRT is, they just know it's critical and involves race so they want no part of it.
Can't be done. What they are doing is keeping white children ignorant of this country's history and Black patriots. We've been teaching our children true American history for well over a century and a half.
They have gone too far now!! What an incredibly ignorant thing to do! One I hope they soon regret, but with this regime in power, I know they will not! Project 2025 in full force! God help us!!
I do hope that anything and everything, that was anywhere and everywhere before #47, has been saved and protected for when it's time to replace it back into history.
"Russian control" as if this isn't just the natural evolution of a government founded to protect the wealth of that generation's version of billionaires
I’ve been saying that . “ I’m from the end of that Underground Railroad . Whoever wants to follow - I’m going home 🇨🇦”. I am sure Canada would welcome all . Which is the point of humanity after all
Reminds me of a teacher I saw last year with a class of high schoolers at the MLK memorial. His description of the man was glowing...and never mentioned civil rights. 👀👀 I very nearly raised my hand for a question.
The Harriet Tubman story, directed by Ben Shapiro, produced by Kanye West and starring Gina Carrano in the role of a lifetime. They wanted Emma Stone but she wasn't making that mistake again
Just part of Trump's effort to rewrite history. Remember: he describes Jan 6 as a 'Love Fest.' (Oh, and btw, he won the 2020 election). We all watched the riot on TV. We know what it was. If he thinks he can get away with rewiting that one, the sky is the limit. He needs to go. Badly!
The MAGAt intent is to accentuate the role of whites in the freeing of the slaves, while also minimizing the role of blacks. Exactly the kind of historical whitewashing one would expect from white trash who wish the Confederacy had prevailed.
I don't trust these scumbags not to start burning books and cutting off the internet next! Might sound hyperbolic, but truthfully, I didn't think this crap would be happening less than 90 days in. Silly me!
Thank you highlighting this and making people aware. It’s heinous, but as with much of our dubious history, it will one day need to be told. It’s so important.
40 years ago some naive young white boy told me earnestly that the KKK were a social justice group that provided meals to schools and other service projects. I looked at his dad and said, "Are you gonna tell him or am I?" Someone will always fall for the rhetoric.
Yes, even when pundits were hair on fire pretending the black lady would impose price controls, Trump was a racist. He’s the racist he’s always been. I know this is news to white lady theater critics.
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This is an act of pure spite.
Thin skinned racist idiots.
Parks Canada:
https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/personnage-person/harriet-tubman
Her church still stands: http://salemchapelbmechurch.ca/index.html
It goes beyond whitewashing and really rewrites history. There is an attempt to deny slavery in our history.
Outrageous!
Orwell had a right:
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Isn’t it about time they’re evolutioned (😬) out?
Which reminds me of this glorious ballad. They’ll try to outlaw Johnny Cash. Let them. He was already an outlaw. Let’s join him.
https://youtu.be/oEwSwQtSmDQ?si=B2DOFDWQzdpHGC7_
You: Is this classism?
https://www.texastribune.org/2015/10/05/controversial-social-studies-textbooks-under-fire-/
Americans: don’t trust anything your current government tells you. It’s all horse shit.
• "C" for "colored" on applications
• Frantic rush to Muslim ban
• Central Park Five
• Charlottesville Neo-Nazis "very fine people"
• "Sh*thole" countries
• Mexico: Drugs, crime, rape, and the insane
• "Go back to where you came from"
• Accountants wearing yarmulkes
• Cult of Hatred
It was wonderful when it came out but maybe it has to be remade to get younger people to watch it?
Trained seethe is what they know
Making fun of other joyful
And burning the whole place down yah
An uncle once said out loud “these people have like a sign on their back that says kick me I like it “
"Erasing History" by Jason Stanley recently taught at Yale.
https://www.everand.com/audiobook/763753664
After reading it, I completely understand where we are, what's happening and why, and how I/we can deal with it.
With fabricated history!
Well that’s and out and out lie!
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/what-is-the-underground-railroad.htm
#resistFacism
#missbyanInch
#impeachTrump
#deportMUSK
#Felon47
#Voteblue2026
Everyone should spend time watching documentaries on how the nazis came to power and their actions to dismantle democracy and institute cruel human suffering. It's uncanny how much Repubs today use the same nazi playbook.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/04/06/national-park-service-underground-railroad-history-slavery/
Can you imagine the prison conversation, I’m in for talking about the Underground Railroad. Signmeup!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/harriet-tubman-just-became-a-one-star-general-more-than-150-years-after-serving-with-the-union-army-180985458/
Give us the unvarnished Truth and we will deal with the Future.
Some glimpses of history might be even irreversibly erased.
It's like 1984 - in order to control the present, they want to control the past.
There are millions that know the truth and it’s up to us to teach it and expose the lies.
https://revolutionbooks.org/african-american-history
And ‘The World of Sugar’, Bosma. And the history of cotton, tobacco. Amistad…
Canada should create an international museum to protect every piece of real history the US is flushing.
One problem though, ALL of it is OURS not just theirs.
Reclaim it all.
Do it now.
The whitewashing of history, removing and unpleasant and disturbing historical FACTS harms our ancestors and descendants. We are doomed to repeat the ugly being erased.
The South is never to be held accountable, and black people are passive witnesses to their own liberation.
I really despise these people.
Look at everything on their laws. 'Blueprints ' ring any bells?
• Every fucking one of them.
• No black hood. Just like Mr. Hussein (Dec. 2006).
• Streamed live, YouTube.
The signage all reads like Lost Cause and Daughters of the Confederacy propaganda and that was 10-15 years ago.
admin who think they can whitewash the history,the truth ,of our nation by removing words from a website because they are so afraid of the black & must feel so inferior to people of color are s a d .
They are pathetic in their weakness.
The shroud of ignorance is falling heavily.
Not again
jesus christ.
As in "you have freedom because of us".
Every day they add another brick to their wall of shame.
MAGA you will never write the history of this time