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Posted on 07/04/2026 12:07:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration can reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia.
The signs would be in the same area where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. A message seeking comment was left Friday with the National Park Service.
The new educational panels were designed to replace ones put up in 2010 that told the story of how nine slaves lived in the home along with George and Martha Washington in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital.
Their removal stemmed from Trump’s 2025 executive order calling for federally owned or controlled historic sites not to display information to “disparage Americans past or living” and to focus on the “greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.”
Friday’s ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit of Appeals, which is based in a courthouse across an intersection from the President’s House site, was a technical one to allow implementation of a ruling made last month.
That ruling — by one judge Trump nominated, one nominated by former President George W. Bush and one chosen by former President Barack Obama — said a lower court was wrong to force the federal government to take down its new panels.
The government asked Thursday for the go-ahead to put them back up, saying that the panels were ready to install and that they should go up “without further delay.” The administration has said in court filings that its information also discusses slavery.
Advocates, academics and officials have been concerned for months that the version that complies with Trump’s order could give a history that downplays the pain in the nation’s past in favor of a more...
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I have become so tired of hearing about slavery and genocide on national holidays.
The left isn’t happy unless everything has the stench of urine through and through.
President Trump clearly guilty of anti-Soviet counterrevolutionary activity. Again, thank God.
> President Trump clearly guilty of anti-Soviet counterrevolutionary activity. <
I had to think about that line for a second. Then I got it.
Well played!
And the victims come out on Independence Day to air their victim status. So sick of it. My new response is get over it, move forward, stop living in the past.
Slavery sounds a lot like Communism....
Trump administration interpretation: bad.
Mere journalist interpretations: good.
Uh, I don’t think so. After all, they are ONLY journalists and we’ve seen the veracity of their opinions.
In all this hand-wringing over chattel slavery the left has successfully erased nearly every trace of something vitally important: indentured servitude.
The freedom of an individual of paltry economic means to attach themselves to a going household in a capacity of service to the house in trade for food, living quarters, and perhaps a small stipend — many who availed themselves of such willing service would have been in the streets otherwise.
Now we have he help that can be taxed.
And we have hundreds of thousands of homeless.
Boy, what progress Progressives have made!
Whitewashing history is wrong.
What Trump is doing is just like the Soviets, Chinese, and other despotic regimes do. I guess he admires those countries. His display of the military is quite similar.
Both the good and bad should be displayed.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The criminal news media can’t survive without its -ists and
-phobias lectures.
It’s cliched and extremely tiresome.
What victims? There are no victims.
Communism is slavery. You just replace the plantation owner with the state.
A Trump judge, a Dubya judge and a Bronco Bama stooge from the Third Circus Court of Schlemiels.
They were unable to deny the simple truth.
Gay-Islamic-race-communists = the media
And as it should be.
A new President in 2029 will make the decision on which panels are to be displayed.
Trump is not white washing history. Why should the slaves of George Washington be the focus of his Philadelphia home? Do panels deny Washington had slaves? Doe the panels justify slavery? I’ve not seen them but I am confident they neither deny nor justify slavery in 18th century America.
He isn’t whitewashing history, Trumpe is merely making tourist panels more normal, there is a reason why our young hate America and it isn’t because they are all really good at history, it is because they don’t know history, but are deeply imprinted constantly with dark and sinister impressions of what our history is, and who we as a people are, even on vacation and fun days.
Highlight the slavery. Ensure that the coverage describes the tribal conflicts in Africa and that one tribe managed to enslave other weaker tribes. Talk about the forced marches down the Slave Coast and the pens in which black slavers kept their victims until they were ready to sell them on the slave ships which took them to the Americas. Also, include a biography of Anthony Johnson, one of the first people in the American colonies to legally own a slave for life. Show them something they can be proud of!
A good ruling. Too bad SCOTUS screwed the 14th pooch.
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