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The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on racism, sexism, slavery, gay rights or the persecution of Indigenous people at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
For example,
Park Service officials have ordered the removal of a photograph illustrating violence against slaves, known as “The Scourged Back,” at one national park. The photograph, taken in 1863, shows scars on the back of a man probably named Peter Gordon from wounds inflicted by his masters before he escaped slavery.
The photo was circulated widely at the time, and Northern audiences were shocked at what the photo showed, said Anne Cross, a scholar of 19th century photography at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
“The bodies of enslaved people like Peter Gordon revealed to them realities they had never seen with their own eyes before,” Cross said, “and in many cases it altered their political opinions about the need to defeat the Confederacy and preserve the Union.”Well, sure, if the photograph played a small part in defeating the Confederacy and preserving the Union, it's gotta' be bad, amirite?
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Whitening and brightening the park experience... the role of black people must be erased. Just as later generations are not being taught the holocaust was real, the contributions of black americans is being deleted by the brown shirts.
I learned about the Buffalo Soldiers on educational park plaques a long time ago on one of our many many trips to Yosemite. He wouldn't dare have those plaques removed.
I never did get around to climbing the cable route up the back of HalfDome.
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"I never did get around to climbing the cable route up the back of HalfDome."
I did it in 2013, one of the coolest "hikes" I have ever done.
Pretty good hike just getting to the base of Half Dome, but nothing compared
to going up it. At first, was kind of puzzled as to how to proceed. But quickly
caught on and while it was really steep, having the chains to hang onto, and the
tactile feel of the rock made it doable. And the view from the plateau on top
was amazing. I'd do it again, but would probably have to go solo this time, as
everybody has aged out of that type of adventure.
Luv the California outdoors, it truly has it all !
