What rough beasts are trying to erase accurate history in our National Parks? Are we not to discuss the history of pelagic whaling or chattel slavery or Jim Crow segregation because STEVEN MILLER and his ilk would take offense? Does this offend the First and Ninth Amendment?. Is it against the peace and dignity of a free people? You tell me. History is not hagiography. We don't need snowflake GQP censors to dictate American history. Our Nation's Oldest City of St. Augustine once had a misguided Mayor who actually said "we" should only tell "positive history." There's no "positive history" course in any college or university. It's wrong. (The misguided Mayor made that statement in the context of the 1566 murder of a Gay French interpreter of the Guale Indian language, ordered to be garroted to death by St. Augustine City founder Pedro Menendez de Aviles, who called him "a Sodomite and a Lutheran." Menendez's brother-in-law wrote it down. History is history. That story helped lead to a landmark June 7, 2005 federal court order for Rainbow flags on our Bridge of Lions, a First Amendment victory for GBTQ+ people subjected to invidious discrimination by our City, which allowed all other organizations to fly their flags (even the Broward Yacht Company). Spare us from the hick hack histrionics and DJT performative drama. From NPR:
National Park signage encourages the public to help erase negative stories at its sites
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service (NPS) to post signage at all sites across the country by June 13, asking visitors to offer feedback on any information that they feel portrays American history and landscapes in a negative light.
The June 9 memo sent to regional directors by National Parks Service comptroller Jessica Bowron and leaked to NPR states the instructions come in response to President Trump's March "Restoring Truth (sic) and Sanity (sic) to American History" executive order and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's follow-up order last month requesting its implementation. Trump's original order included a clause ordering Burgum to remove content from sites that "inappropriately disparages (sic) Americans past or living and instead (sic) focuses on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people."
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People use things for political purposes.. basically anything they can get their hands on... history, religion, ethnicity, you name it. So the right wing is attacking the sources without regard to how right or wrong such an action might be. Simply put, there are no off limits areas.
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