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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Orders Removal of Photo of Enslaved Man's Scars and Information About Slavery from National Parks
https://people.com/trump-orders-removal-photo-of-enslaved-man-scars-information-slavery-national-parks-11810692
The order comes less than a month after the president declared that America cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE"
One of the most famous Civil Warera portraits of a slave will reportedly be removed from national parks and museums under the Trump administration
An 1863 photo taken of escaped enslaved man Gordon titled The Scourged Back, which shows severe whipping scars, is at the center of the debate
Images reportedly under review by the Trump administration include signs referring to racial discrimination and the hostility of White people, according to the Washington Post
In an article published by the Washington Post on Monday, Sept. 15, the outlet reported that four anonymous sources familiar with the matter said the removal orders are tied to the 79-year-olds March 27 executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," which directs the Interior Department to eliminate information that reflects a corrosive ideology that disparages historic Americans.
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Trump Orders Removal of Photo of Enslaved Man's Scars and Information About Slavery from National Parks (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Tuesday
OP
bucolic_frolic
(52,442 posts)1. But ..... but ..... this isn't Cancel Culture! amiright? /nt
yourout
(8,596 posts)2. I hope someone is compiling a big long list of things we have to correct after we...
Get back the reins from this fascist regime.
Blues Heron
(7,604 posts)3. Orwellian
Timeflyer
(3,433 posts)7. My thoughts exactly.
"He who controls the past controls the future, he who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell.
IcyPeas
(24,255 posts)4. To be replaced with a picture of trump's bonespurs.
multigraincracker
(36,313 posts)5. Is that why there are no photos of him in a swim suit?
Must have terrible scars.
Seen lots of pictures of his wife without clothes on. Never of him. Strange?
no_hypocrisy
(53,121 posts)6. Will this photo be replaced by
photos of picnics at lynchings.
Just asking
twodogsbarking
(15,904 posts)8. The photo will be replaced by one of Ivanka when she was fourteen.
There should be a nationwide effort to print the slave picture printed and posted as many places as possible .
My printer is ready, set, go.
JustAnotherGen
(37,090 posts)9. To truly
Erase Black Americans?
He's going to have to erase us.
Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,496 posts)10. NO PRESIDENT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO RE-WRITE HISTORY
Just because it offends his delicate ego.
I am SICK to the point of PUKING BLOOD over this administration's trying to white-wash and erase this nation's history. For better or worse, every event that shaped this country has brought us education, enlightenment, empathy, and reckoning with what has happened here.
And NO PRESIDENT, certainly not a pathological liar, a convicted rapist, a 34-count felon and a RACIST bigoted buffoon like trmp can be permitted to do so.
Call your congress people and DEMAND a stop to this BULLSHIT. IMMEDIATELY.
electric_blue68
(23,932 posts)11. Keep piling up your disgusting actions, drumphf....
Part of the Executive Order:
to eliminate information that reflects a corrosive ideology that disparages historic Americans.
" "disparages" " 🙄
Well, drumphf, this truth should hurt!
Just one part of the hideousness of being enslaved; besides originally being ripped away from your homeland. Arrgggg!