1. Harriet Tubman never said that. 2. This fake quote is actually pro-slavery since it implies that slaves deserved their condition because of ignorance or inherent servility. 3. Stop this. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991476958721556487 …
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Striker Titan
Historians who study Tubman say it's fake & also that it echoes pro-slavery arguments:https://twitter.com/jrstriker12/status/991494398386098176 …
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Replying to @brentinmock @GeeDee215
http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2016/03/dangers-of-a-fake-tubman-quote-mcdaniel/ …
"Yet as an historian of slavery and abolition, I have always found this particular fake quote to be particularly insidious. The idea it expresses even seems perilously close to proslavery ideology as it existed in the early American republic."
9:56 AM - 2 May 2018
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