National Park Service removes Harriet Tubman from Underground Railroad webpage + changes "enslaved people" to "Black/White Cooperation"

[newarkhiphop]

CNN
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An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

The National Parks Service webpage for the “Underground Railroad” used to lead with a quote from Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor”, a comparison on the Wayback Machine between the webpage on January 21 and March 19 shows. Both the quote and an image of Tubman have since been removed, along with several references to “enslaved” people and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

The Washington Post first reported on the changes. The webpage now leads with commemorative stamps of various civil rights leaders with text including the phrase “Black/White Cooperation.” Whereas previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad after the Fugitive Slave Act, the article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the “American ideals of liberty and freedom” and do not specifically mention slavery.

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

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

#bothsides

same same same...

As foretold we are at the stage of denial. masking the act of enslaving people is not a path to reparations.

rerwriting history of the act pushes the idea of reparations for it further away not closer.

you were bamboozled by Tariq and his ilk. do not let pride keep you from waking up.

 

[xCivicx]

You should be teaching your own kids history

Im not sure why people expect the dominant society teach yalls kids about their long history of degeneracy

 

[Prodyson]

You should be teaching your own kids history

Im not sure why people expect the dominant society teach yalls kids about their long history of degeneracy

Sure, but there’s a difference between not teaching history and rewriting history with lies… and an even bigger difference between removing history that has already been written to replace it with lies

You’re a special kind of evil to try to rewrite history that has already been known and documented to be the truth for hundreds of years.

 

[tuckgod]

#bothsides

same same same...

Social issues are not political issues.

Nobody cares about this nonsense.

Where is the Democratic leadership currently?

Where is the former Vice President that was supposedly capable of leading our nation?

Is she not capable of giving interviews on CNN, campaigning for Dems with tight races coming up?

Where is Obama, the Clintons, Gore, Kerry, anybody that has been a leader for the Democratic Party for the last 20 years, where are they??

These people are all alive and well.

They are enjoying their millions on their villas that they received as vital parts of the wizardry of Oz that you silly nikkas keep falling for.

 

[BaggerofTea]

You should be teaching your own kids history

Im not sure why people expect the dominant society teach yalls kids about their long history of degeneracy

I wish people would drop these juvenile thought patterns

 

[LadyJ2]

“Black/White Cooperation” must link to the NFL draft.

 

[xCivicx]

I wish people would drop these juvenile thought patterns

??

I wish black people would stop hoping and wishing that white people would teach their children because Black parents are too lazy to do so. THATS juvenile and extremely naive

Here's a newsflash: every single history book that youve ever had to read in any US public school has many many lies in it. That shyt didn't just start in the past 10 years

They taught that MLK Jr preached "nonviolence" and integration. They conveniently left out that his team stayed strapped AND MLK thought integration was a mistake later in life. They also don't teach that the US government was found guilty in conspiring to have him murdered.

Stop being lazy and teach your kids

 

[acri1]

I wish people would drop these juvenile thought patterns

Some people have this weird mental block where they feel compelled make any excuse possible to deflect criticism of Trump.

 

[xCivicx]

Some people have this weird mental block where they feel compelled make any excuse possible to deflect criticism of Trump.

You're definitely projecting

Its crazy how emotionally fixated yall are on trump. It's like yall get off on whining about trump as much as possible. It's pathetic coming from supposed grown men

I guess trump made eve bite the apple too huh smh

 

[charknicks]

You should be teaching your own kids history

Im not sure why people expect the dominant society teach yalls kids about their long history of degeneracy

Yes, you should teach your kids history. BUT, these kids wont believe it if they find it harder to verify. This is why they are pulling books off shelves and references off the internet. So we dont feel like we as Black people accomplished anything, and we just take whatever they want to give. They are slowly trying to take it back to slave times.

 

[Vandelay]

Black/white cooperation??

 

[Uachet]

#bothsides

same same same...

As foretold we are at the stage of denial. masking the act of enslaving people is not a path to reparations.

rerwriting history of the act pushes the idea of reparations for it further away not closer.

you were bamboozled by Tariq and his ilk. do not let pride keep you from waking up.

Are you seriously trying to use the very small numbers of Black people who listened to that grifter as a means of attacking Black Americans? You make your statements like Black Americans voted for this in mass, when my people did the opposite. Why do I not see you have this same sort of smoke for Hispanics who voted for him at a far higher rate than Black Americans did. Why did you take this instance of Trump being the facist he is and other White people going along with it, as your means of attacking Black Americans as a whole for the actions of the very few that follow Tariq?

 

[the bossman]

You should be teaching your own kids history

Im not sure why people expect the dominant society teach yalls kids about their long history of degeneracy

shrug your shoulders and happily embrace your kids growing up in two different realities. Learning one thing at home then learning something completely different in school about their identity. A reality where their teachers and their peers will easily mistreat them as if slavery never even existed.

shrug your shoulders with no problem as your kids grow up in a world where society at large grows up learning myths instead of what really happened during slavery. The fact that people will vote and make decisions based on those myths. That shapes policy, justice systems, funding, and representation in ways that reinforce inequality.

yall bothsiders really never take time to think things thru. There's no positive in just shrugging your shoulders and saying "you should just teach them at home anwyays"

Explain how not giving a damn that society at large goes down the route of whitewashing and revising history will be positive for any black children?

 

[xCivicx]

Yes, you should teach your kids history. BUT, these kids wont believe it if they find it harder to verify. This is why they are pulling books off shelves and references off the internet. So we dont feel like we as Black people accomplished anything, and we just take whatever they want to give. They are slowly trying to take it back to slave times.

If you feel that way then that's on you. You're already taking whatever they want to give because no one on this forum can stop what they're doing right now

I've been saving and storing documents and documentaries for well over a decade now