Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”

• essell@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At least people will be able to remember she looked like Julia Roberts

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Elon Musk will build The Above Ground Railroad to save white South African immigrants from the tyranny of paying taxes.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Above Ground Hyperloop

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Relevant picture

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• FriendBesto@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, she died in 1913, if she has not been erased in 112 years, and with people still want to make a movie about her…

  Perhaps you may be leaning into conspiracy theories and are fear mongering yourself and others. Stop it.

  Here, from Wikipedia:

  Parks, monuments, and historical sites

  National parks and national monuments related to Tubman in the United States are the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park, both in Maryland,[215] and the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn.[216] The Salem Chapel in St. Catharines, Canada where Tubman worshipped, is a National Historic Site of Canada.[217]

  The city of Auburn, New York has several historical sites related to Tubman, including her gravesite.[218][219] Other state and local historical sites about Tubman include the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park[220] and the Harriet Tubman Memorial Garden[221] in Maryland, and the Harriet Tubman Museum is in New Jersey.[222]

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  Artistic portrayals

  Tubman is the subject of many works of art. Musicians including Woody Guthrie, Wynton Marsalis, and Walter Robinson have written songs celebrating her.[223] She is the subject of operas by Thea Musgrave,[224] Nkeiru Okoye,[225] and Hilda Paredes,[226] as well as plays by Carolyn Gage and a collaboration of May Miller and Willis Richardson.[227] Tubman is the focus of novels by Elizabeth Cobbs,[228] Marcy Heidish,[229] Anne Parrish,[230] and Bob the Drag Queen,[231] and is a character in novels by Terry Bisson,[232] Ta-Nehisi Coates,[233] and James McBride.[234]

  Since Tubman’s life was first dramatized on television in a 1963 episode of the series The Great Adventure,[235] she has been portrayed in TV productions such as The Good Lord Bird,[236] Timeless,[237] Underground,[236] and A Woman Called Moses.[238] Cynthia Erivo received an Academy Award nomination for portraying Tubman in the 2019 biographical film Harriet.[239]

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  Dozens of schools,[247] streets and highways,[248] church groups, social organizations, and government agencies have been named after Tubman.[249] In 1944, the United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship named for a black woman.[211]

  On November 11, 2024, Tubman was posthumously commissioned as a one-star general in the Maryland National Guard in recognition of her military service during the Civil War.[250]

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s not like we’ve got a government administration that is actively seeking to remove mentions of women and people of color from their websites.

    Its not like the Smithsonian is returning artifacts to people against their requests, and pulling specific items from view to please the current administration.

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    • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First and foremost, you are side stepping my comment. She ain’t getting “erased.” You could admit to just being wrong there. Instead of moving the goal post.

      First link: They are removing DEI stuff from NASA. We do not have to insert DEI into everything if it is not merited. They are not trying to “erase” people from history. DEI is based on political ideology that tends to be performative rather actually useful. Look at all the corporations that claims to support LGBT issues in the USA but say and do nothing in Muslim countries? Why? Because it is all a grift that people in the USA and other countries fall for. Search about the missing money from BLM, Something like half of the 90+ million is just gone. Mostly in houses, salaries to friends, family and crazy lifestyles, ttavelling. Up here in Toronto, the head of BLM embezzled like $100,000 from York University. Then claimed racism when they took her to court, backtracked that claim the day before the court date and said she would try to pay it back as a way to avoid possible jail. Merited credit is good, Tubman is not going anywhere.

      Second link: They are returning the stuff to their rightful owners. They could just donate the items, if they wanted to and care so much about the history. As they claim. . If it was part of the collection it would be on display.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not even close to a thought out response, just reactive defense of the current administration fascistic policies and desire to erase history.

        Is it normal that they are removing women from military history?

        Does the boot leather taste that great?

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  • tino@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!

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