Oh my, it gets worse: Kanye West Tweets Fake Harriet Tubman Quote After Saying Slavery Was 'A Choice [View all]

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Kanye West Tweets Fake Harriet Tubman Quote After Saying Slavery Was ‘A Choice’

There’s no evidence the activist said the quote, which reads, “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kanye-west-tweets-fake-harriet-tubman-quote-after-saying-slavery-was-a-choice_us_5ae9ee44e4b00f70f0ee84fc

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The quote appeared just after West compared himself to both Tubman and Nat Turner, two Americans born into slavery who were pivotal in the fight for abolition in the 19th century.--snip--
There’s no hard evidence that Tubman actually said this quote. The fact-checking site Snopes has pretty much debunked it.

As Milton Sernett, professor emeritus of history at the Maxwell School and author of Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History told Ralph Luker of the History News Network: “My impression is that this is a late 20th-century quote from a fictionalized account of Tubman’s life. Whoever wishes to use the dubious quote as a political zinger ought to cite a reliable source.”

The fake Tubman quote obviously had Twitter up in arms... more at link