It really is Donald Trump’s world and we’re just living in it
If you were wondering if the anti-DEI crusade is anything more than rank bigotry and segregationism, wonder no more. It is not:
For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet 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 began.
Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.
The introductory sentence is gone, too. It has been replaced by a line that makes no mention of slavery and that describes the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the American civil rights movement.” The effort “bridged the divides of race,” the page now says.
It “bridged the divide of race???? What fatuous gobblydygook is that?
When you think about it, why keep any mention of Tubman at all. It makes some white people feel icky that at one time enslaved Black people tried to run away from those who “owned” them when we all know that they were perfectly happy in their lives working for the benevolent plantation owners who took excellent care of them. After all, they were immigrants to America who immediately had jobs and a place to live. What more could they have wanted? Surely very few wanted to run away and those who did were troublemakers.
The war of Northern Aggression changed all that, subjugating the southern landowners and destroying their economy and the sacred right of “states.” Generous white people granted the free Black population all kinds of rights and privileges which they took advantage of leading to the unequal society we see today in which non-whites and women get everything and white men are left scrambling for the crumbs of American society because of DEI.
The end.