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Passages

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Mon Apr 7, 2025, 10:59 AM Apr 7

Harriet Tubman reference removed from National Parks' Underground Railroad web page

by Cheyanne M. Daniels -

04/07/25

The National Parks Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad.

For years, the Parks’ page on the Underground Railroad featured a prominent photo of Tubman.

“The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage,” the page initially read.

Tubman, born into slavery in Maryland, escaped around 1849 after learning she and her brothers were to be sold. She would return to Maryland’s eastern shore more than a dozen times, leading many others to freedom and becoming perhaps the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.

https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/5235796-harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-nps-national-parks-service-maryland-trump-dei/

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Harriet Tubman reference removed from National Parks' Underground Railroad web page (Original Post) Passages Apr 7 OP
Musk's AI search programs are programmed to be racist, sexist, and anti American Botany Apr 7 #1
Yes because the Underground Railroad was all about white people FakeNoose Apr 7 #2
Fortunately, this is still there. Silent Type Apr 7 #3
A lot of Nazis claimed they were "following orders" and some of them only did so in fear of Wonder Why Apr 7 #4

Botany

(73,907 posts)
1. Musk's AI search programs are programmed to be racist, sexist, and anti American
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:13 AM
Apr 7

This was no mistake. The search engines for Musk’s A.I. and his computer hackers are
doing what they were programmed to do.

Except to see Ms. Tubman’s name restored with some lame ass excuse. It is like we
are back in the days of Jim Crow Laws and the Southern States proudly put up the
Confederate “Stars and Bars” as part of trying to take America back to the “good old days”
of state and nationally sponsored racism.

FakeNoose

(37,192 posts)
2. Yes because the Underground Railroad was all about white people
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:18 AM
Apr 7

It's better to never refer to slavery at all, but if we must, then it's white people who "rescued" the blacks.

Silent Type

(9,017 posts)
3. Fortunately, this is still there.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Apr 7

"I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

"Harriet Tubman was a deeply spiritual woman who lived her ideals and dedicated her life to freedom. She is the Underground Railroad’s best known conductor and before the Civil War repeatedly risked her life to guide 70 enslaved people north to new lives of freedom. This new national historical park preserves the same landscapes that Tubman used to carry herself and others away from slavery."

https://www.nps.gov/hatu/index.htm

But, yeah, the "Black/White Cooperation" is mostly white wing BS.

Wonder Why

(5,530 posts)
4. A lot of Nazis claimed they were "following orders" and some of them only did so in fear of
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:45 AM
Apr 7

their lives or the lives of their families. On the other hand, the worst that has happened now is to lose one's job.

There needs to be new Nuremberg Trials when democracy is restored.

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