@bski1221 @atrupar Smithsonian Institution: executive-order pressure targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Smithsonian/National Museum of African American History and Culture: reported artifact rotations amid pressure, with causation disputed. 1/
@bski1221 @atrupar Department of Defense website: Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. trailblazing-career page deleted and labeled “DEI/black-history-month.”
Department of Defense integration history: 60th anniversary of U.S. troop integration page removed, then reinstated. 2/
@bski1221 @atrupar Governing federal standard suppresses negative racial history by design.
Slavery at the founding minimized at Independence/President’s House.
Named enslaved people in Washington’s household de-centered. 3/
@bski1221 @atrupar Physical brutality of slavery suppressed through “The Scourged Back” removal or flagging.
Escape-from-slavery narratives targeted at Kingsley Plantation and Cane River.
Abolitionist revolt context targeted @ Harpers Ferry.
Civil Rights Movement interpretation targeted @ Selma. 4/
@bski1221 @atrupar School desegregation interpretation targeted at Brown v. Board because of “equity.”
Lost Cause correction targeted at Manassas.
Colonial slavery in the U.S. Virgin Islands targeted.
Slavery generalized as “disparagement” rather than public history. 5/
@bski1221 @atrupar Black military achievement treated as DEI-coded rather than American history.
Language about racial abuse and segregation caught in deletion.
Black History Month framing treated as suspect.
Smithsonian order specifically attacks race-conscious interpretation. 6/
@bski1221 @atrupar That's the *first* set of actions by the current administration to accomplish their goal of Black erasure from national monuments, Federal policy, etc etc etc., putting the lie to your contention that they are somehow not doing what I just showed you they are doing. 7/
@bski1221 @atrupar Would you like me to find more examples, or shall I start on their ongoing attempts to erase transgender Americans from existence and their overall progress in removing LGBTQ+ Americans from participation in civil society? (Rhetorical question.) 8/8
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