from the Slavery? -What slavery? explanation
Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it, as the old saying reads. And those who choose not to teach that history, to continue this in the logical conclusion, try to actively repeat it. It is within that logical framework that I have looked at our many posts about the attempt by Trump 2.0 to erase all kinds of history from the American psyche, in particular the history of the naughty things we have done, or of any reporting of so -called ‘dei’, which simply means minority groups.
Examples of this in abundance. The National Park Service asked visitors to tell them which parts of American history exhibitions they feel bad so that they can be removed. The Smithsonian Institute was instructed to weaken itself, which meant that the removal of references to the small oops of America such as slavery, genocide, internment camps and CIA-COUTS both successful and otherwise. Proud of our shared American military history? Well, enjoy it on our federal websites … unless it concerns black, brown or gays, because they mean nothing. The Enola Gay, it turns out, was completely too homo while he rejected Japan for the taste of Trump.
And now, to promote compliance with Trump that demands all federal departments that they scrub their sites, digitally and physically, from everything that Americans could give the SADs, the National Park Service removes References on sites and memorials of civil war to … slavery.
The White House has ordered that signs and exhibitions document the American slavery, including a portrait from 1863 of an ex-slave, often referred to as Peter or Gordon, and the thick, bright cloud plasts on his “collected back”. Gordon’s photo became one of the most scattered images of the horrors of American slavery during the abolitionist movement.
The affected locations include Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia, where abolitionist John Brown led a failed raid that eventually led to his conquest and the beginning of the civil war. According to De Post, employees of Harpers Ferry have marked more than 30 signs.
Another affected site is the house site of the president in Philadelphia, where George Washington kept slaves. Exhibitions at that location apparently do not meet the new order from the Park Service, according to sources that spoke by post.
Now telling the story of the civil war without references to slavery is a bit like telling the story of the American Space program without referring to missiles. I mean, you can, I think. But to tell the story of Americans in space, you need to know a little how we got there. And to tell the story of the civil war, you need to know how we got thereat. And that would be slavery, regardless of what the dead expressions of the states can try to tell you.
But a part of what plays here is another copy of pure hypocrisy. These include places of learning. Education, you could call it, in the shared history of our country and culture. And the federal government uses an enormous amount of power over the curriculum of that history at these locations, even if they claim that the opposite is needed elsewhere in education.
“This means a huge increase in federal power and control over the things we learn,” Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of the University of Pennsylvania who studies the history of education, told The Post. “It was offered to you by the team that says that education stands and must be locally.”
That kind of hypocrisy of this government is of course no surprise. The truth is nothing, there are no morality or norms, and it is all just a bend for what the whims of the crazy king are at a certain moment.
But this is us history. Not his. No party. And certainly not one race. And it’s all of us to keep that history alive in the light of those who want to bring us back to a time before progress.
Posted under: Civil War, Donald Trump, History, National Park Service, National Parks, NPS, Slavery
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