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"“Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the
author of the 1619 Project. She is responding to reports that President Trump
is targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American
History and Culture. The museum’s slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of
the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians,
are the bull’s-eye for the Trump administration. “I think that this is a sign
of a deep sickness to think that you could go to the National Museum of
African-American History and Culture and feel the need to erase how Black
people got here,” emphasized Jones, who added, “To erase or minimize the
slavery and freedom part of that story is to create a fantasy of how we got
here. We literally would not be in the United States without slavery.”
According to sources, Smithsonian officials are secretly strategizing to stave
off presidential actions for Republican support to preserve the history.
Smithsonian officials hope once they have secured Republican support, they can
present the attempt to save the artifacts and museum integrity to President
Trump. In its lower portion, the museum takes tourists on a historic timeline
journey from American slavery to Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement with the
casket of Emmett Till, and simulations of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, among
other noted moments in American history. “We cannot be a free democratic
society when you have the most powerful people in the world who will take
control of a history museum and force them to tell a lie,” said a distraught
Jones, who has been tracking the museum’s movements more closely since its
director Kevin Young left his post last week after four years on the job. Over
a million people visited the museum in 2022, making it the second-most toured
Smithsonian Museum."
Via Joyce Donahue.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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