Like the Trump administrationThe anti-DEI campaign continues throughout the country, the efforts of the federal agencies to erase diversity and black history are becoming more ridiculous. The latest example of this phenomenon is to somehow bleach the history of the underground railway.
As reported The Washington PostThe Service of the National Park has changed the page of the underground railway of its website since Trump took office. By using Internet files to compare the website version published in the end of March in previous versions, the news will have confirmed that the page has been modified to reduce the importance of slavery and blacks in the underground railway.
Gone is the opening language that states that “the underground railway – resistance to enslaving through exhaust and flight, until the end of the Civil War – refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to win their freedom escape from easement.” Instead, the new language describes the underground railway as “one of the most significant expressions of the North -American Civil Rights movement” and an effort that “decreased the divisions of the race”. A prominent picture of Harriet Tubman It has also been eliminated and replaced by a series of photographs of postage stamps representing the face next to that of other “drivers”, both white and black.
Change “offensive and absurd”
The Washington Post identified dozens of other changes to the websites operated by the National Park service in order to reduce slavery or resistance to racism. References have been removed to historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin or one of the signatories of the declaration of independence owned by the slaves. A reference was changed to “enslaved African Americans” for “enslaved workers”. Publications on John Brown, leader of one of the largest slave rebellions in North -American history, and also edited the Little Rock Nine, according to the document.
Changes on Government Operated websites are in the midst of a large number of efforts to fulfill Trump’s anti-DEI orders. These efforts have included hundreds of books It is marked to eliminate potential from the Library of the Naval Academy, including works on Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Einstein. Even with these other changes, the attempt to disinfect the history of slavery and underground railway is especially important. Historian and Railway Expert Fergus Bordeawich called “both offensive and absurd” changes Cnn that “to overcome the story is to distort -the”.
For now, the Trump administration seems good to the distortion of history and to reduce the legacy of racism and the accomplishments of blacks and other marginalized groups. While some of their changes such as eliminating information about the Tuskegee AirmenIt has been invested after the outrage, it is left to see whether or not the complete history of Harriet Tubman and the underground railway will be restored.
