The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry www.nps.gov/subjects/und... - ThreadSky

phillewis.bsky.social • 55 days ago

The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/what-is-the-underground-railroad.htm

Reposted from Phil Lewis

The National Park Service quietly edited its website about the Underground Railroad to remove key references and quotes from Harriet Tubman and soften its language about slavery

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granjeannie.bsky.social•55 days ago

😢😳😢

transmascdruid.bsky.social•55 days ago

@papst-ny.bsky.social

tippytaff.bsky.social•54 days ago

Altering history is a key ingredient for fascism. I like to think of it as gaslighting.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gaslighting

chrisjustice01.bsky.social•55 days ago

Excellent! 👏
Power to the people ✊⚖️

meowomon.bsky.social•55 days ago

They aren't even bothering to dog whistle any more.

midwesternmom.bsky.social•55 days ago

Exactly.

kenevans.bsky.social•55 days ago

They're Nazis. Of course they are racist pigs. And this is only the beginning of what they'll do if you Yanks don't rise up and deal with them. It will only get worse.

rachelwales.bsky.social•54 days ago

They'll try to erase people's history. Makes it easier for them to justify a whole host of wrongs.

kristla.bsky.social•55 days ago

Why do they remove shit, then when people say something bring it back? They are keeping people illegally
In concentration camps. It’s just confusing “oh no people are upset about the webpage!”

granger451.bsky.social•55 days ago

Public outcry works!!! Every little voice matters.

vrpj.bsky.social•55 days ago

That should ease the souls of the hundreds of thousands he killed through inaction on Covid the first time around.

svorchh01.bsky.social•55 days ago

👏👏👏💕

laneylan.bsky.social•54 days ago

History cannot be rewritten.✊🏽

asocialconstruct.bsky.social•55 days ago

DEI = Black. Erasing or canceling Black American heroes demonstrates that the war of DEI is a sham. Let them continue to show their true color. These CHOICES are not mistakes for them but ADMISSIONS.

cooper67.bsky.social•54 days ago

MORE GREAT NEWS!
YAY!

elesw19.bsky.social•55 days ago

Because protest matters!

starlightwishes.bsky.social•54 days ago

Don't look away, though. At some point when nobody's looking, they will take them down again. That seems to be their pattern ... restoring things, only to take them down again. And making "mistakes" like with Ebola that they promise to fix and then don't.

social-liberal.bsky.social•55 days ago

Public bodies should not neglect their duty to be accurate and inclusive just to please the current leadership. If Trump and his cult want them lie or hate wait for specific instructions so that their actions are transparent for all to see. Time to be brave.

km1922.bsky.social•55 days ago

here4realnews.bsky.social•55 days ago

What kind of government efficiency is this 'take it off put it back', 'fire them no hire them back', ass shit?!

kimbere2531.bsky.social•55 days ago

Great news ‼️

badjohnbrown.bsky.social•55 days ago

Somebody should FOIA so we can know who write the whitewashed bullshit racist version.

kfanyo.bsky.social•55 days ago

The entire story of American slavery, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the resolution of histories at which we have not yet arrived is in their eyes: plain, indelible, and inevitable.

julmm.bsky.social•55 days ago

gooooood

one-infinity.bsky.social•54 days ago

This administration is doing things to get a "GRAND RISING" out of BLACK PEOPLE. They want us to become reactive, once we do that we play right into their hands. I think this was handled properly. NO matter what they say/do, they can't erase us from history, like it or NOT. -ONE.💯😊

one-infinity.bsky.social•54 days ago

They want the history of what they've done to be HIDDEN. Their fragile egos can't handle the TRUTH regarding the BARBARIC ACTS of their forefathers. This is why they persist with their "revisionist history 101 class". NO, I'm NOT done yet. -ONE.💯

one-infinity.bsky.social•54 days ago

I don't know if people realize this; however, many of these people are direct descendants of SLAVE MASTERS. This is where the code phases like "MY HERITAGE" & things of that nature stem from. These are the people currently installed within the confines of the U.S. Government. -ONE.🇺🇸

one-infinity.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is where all of these laws & policies are coming from. These people wish to take us back to a time & era of Civil Rights. Me personally, I REFUSE to go with them. NOT only are all of these policies regressive, they're OPENLY RACIST. -ONE.🇺🇸

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump

defiantlygay.bsky.social•54 days ago

The only reason it was saved is because her name was taught in public schools. It is part of the curriculum. My guess Juneteenth will be the first to disappear.

juliafnp.bsky.social•55 days ago

Good

badtoss.bsky.social•55 days ago

My friend, historian of Harriet Tubman who has consulted for that NPS, was part of that outcry. This is her book.
https://www.amazon.com/Bound-Promised-Land-Portrait-American/dp/0345456289

ninam0.bsky.social•55 days ago

Bound For The Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero.

https://www.katecliffordlarson.com/harriet-tubman.html

ffswtf.bsky.social•55 days ago

📌

caligreg.bsky.social•54 days ago

National Park Service Puts Her Back

Harriet Tubman is US history.
Trump tried to make her a mystery.
His racism caused fury to explode.
Don’t railroad the Underground Railroad.

pixelgypsy.bsky.social•55 days ago

Thankyou, I bought the book. Good Trouble works.

sfineville.bsky.social•55 days ago

I just purchased as well 🩷

bonniebouman.bsky.social•53 days ago

Great.
Hopefully it explains what the Underground Railroad DID, not just "The Underground Railroad was a time when Americans helped one another" pablum.

cornellmom.bsky.social•55 days ago

💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

jonsternfeld.bsky.social•55 days ago

PAPER TIGERS. Just tell them NO.

karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social•55 days ago

holy cow!

walkingonascream.bsky.social•55 days ago

🥳

ingridberg.bsky.social•55 days ago

Their Fate Uncertain #netflix #series #theoneswholive #2025 #twd #thewalkingdead
https://youtube.com/shorts/5rNGfeUiuL4?feature=share

patresha10.bsky.social•55 days ago

The absolute right thing to do. You can’t rewrite history because it hurts your wittle feelings or for any reason ffs😡

lollyblue.bsky.social•55 days ago

Do they think we’re not paying attention???

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•55 days ago

They’re hoping

marizaga.bsky.social•55 days ago

Right?! As little as we are taught wrt slavery, I think Harriet Tubman’s someone at least most of us learn about as kids. New BS form of trolling? Such pathetic ppl to get joy from being asshats &/or idiots.

altskywarn.bsky.social•55 days ago

They are hoping we're lost under the rapid fire of "shock & awe" politics and clowns sent to distract.

pinkprincess.bsky.social•55 days ago

This right here! 👆
They are intentionally doing all lot all at once, in an effort to maximize cruelty and chaos.
It is an attempt to break us all down, so we will be weak willed and compliant, due to exhaustion.

bkjwordplay.bsky.social•55 days ago

This is the chaos they like. It keeps people yelling at so many different things, still focus so nothing gets done.

grunkler.bsky.social•55 days ago

Reversed the changes?

ofgoldensea.bsky.social•55 days ago

NPS has hundreds of other pages that have been edited or completely removed.

sfomel.bsky.social•55 days ago

The NPS website for Pauli Murray Family Home, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2016, keeps the sentence "Murray struggled with her sexual identity and sexual orientation," yet erases TQ from LGBTQ.

akironhead.bsky.social•55 days ago

That’s the method, not a mistake. Take things just a bit farther than you think you can get away with, then slide back a little. The trick is to never slide back as much as you take. There is nothing more devastating than erosion. The only way to fight it is to stop it at the source.

idrisgrey.bsky.social•54 days ago

We shouldn't have to protest to keep history from being revised every single day.

derrick666.bsky.social•55 days ago

Never fuck with a hero.

tabbys-corner.bsky.social•55 days ago

Good! What an asshole! How dare Trump go back in time and just snuff that person out! It pisses me off!

I’m white. Not all white people agree with Trump or think we are a supreme race, only orange assholes and its followers do! Sorry, I’ve got nothing good to say about that orange shit stain!

parksidesf.bsky.social•55 days ago

This shouldn’t have to be…smh

Erasing history is inexcusable!

apeacelover.bsky.social•54 days ago

"Whitewashing" is the perfect word! America, we have to take responsibility for the horror we created for African Americans! Stealing them from their homes and families, and bringing them here to get treated like animals or worse. Then having racism surround them. Accountability is a gift both ways.

titanlily.bsky.social•55 days ago

Wouldn't it be nice if we still lived in a country where (most) people did the right thing without masses of people having to scream at them to do the right thing? Unfuckingbelievable.

coyote108.bsky.social•55 days ago

mirandalynchphd.bsky.social•55 days ago

I'm sure I am not the first to say this, but isn't removing Tubman from the Underground Railroad national park service site a bit like trying to scrub Lincoln from the Lincoln monument?