“The National Archives museum, under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, has been working to reshape its narrative of American history in order to make white conservatives more comfortable … The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control … A photo of King was replaced with one of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley.”
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Utterly shameful behaviour at the US National Archives as anything remotely confronting to white Americans seems to be being purged from the public national record. Whitewashing history is a shockingly regressive step.To clarify this, we're talking public display and education. As far as I know, they're not removing items from the archives themselves, although if Trump wins that level of cultural vandalism wouldn't surprise me.
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It’s Going to Take a Constant Fight to Preserve the Historical Record
The National Archives museum is backsliding into a sanitized mythological retelling of American history. Don’t assume the truth will prevail.Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)
TCat will ignore the lies
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It's the very first, f'ing rule, and they're failing already. The US Archivist should be replaced.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Are you fucking kidding? My family lived through the Internment! That’s why I don’t trust the government!! This is my ACTUAL family.
Okay. Having a breath. Here have this photo it’s real history. #internment #usa #japanese
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Shogan has published a strong rebuttal of that WSJ arti...oh no, wait, she's doubled down, nvm.
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A Message from the Archivist – AOTUS 11: The Blog of Dr. Colleen Shogan
aotus11.blogs.archives.govAral Balkan reshared this.