For goodness sake please!!! tell me when we start to care

 For those who are not from the US or who were taught IN the US after 1990, let me give you a teeny-tiny bit of information that every American should know.

During slavery, a Black woman, Harriet Tubman, help create and expand the "Underground Railroad." It was a series of homes or outbuildings that would hide slaves as they trekked from the Southern Slave States to Canada.

The Underground Railroad is famed for helping thousands of slaves to freedom before the Civil War. Removing that knowledge from "history" simply is following the Trump Administration's pulling out of all minority history from the country. This rewriting of history follows the narrative of so many books where overlords rewrite history: George Orwell's 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, the Mockingbird novels, and more. 

It aches. (full story is here in Washington Post - it gave me this article without their paywall).

Here is the opening of it...

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 It has been replaced by a line that makes no mention of slavery and that describes the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the American civil rights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.

In our new world in America, if it wasn't done by a white man, it ain't shit.