Yesterday, President Trump’s administration announced it would remove the infamous photo of the enslaved man's scars and all information about slavery from US National Parks.
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Yesterday, President Trump’s administration announced it would remove the infamous photo of the enslaved man's scars and all information about slavery from US National Parks.
Yet another addition to Trump’s continued push to rewrite the history of the civil war with the South as the good guys.
Earlier this Summer he announced that he would be restoring the names of Confederate generals to US military bases and also remarked that the Smithsonian focuses too much on “how bad slavery was.”
These actions and remarks are red meat for the growing faction of Neo-Confederates within the Republican Party.
Among this faction is Lauren Boebert who at every turn waters down the horrors of slavery by calling everything, from COVID precautions to the border crisis, slavery. She once tweeted “To disarm the people is the most effective way to enslave them – George Mason” and then was subsequently dragged for either ignoring (or not realizing) that Mason owned over 100 slaves.
Her family members have been photographed wearing Confederate flags and at an event at Colorado’s Fort Garland, a recruitment point for the Union during the Civil War, she took photos with a Confederate War reenactor.
Someone needs to tell her that Colorado was not a part of the Confederacy.
