Learn from Bush’s mistake.
The Smithsonian, a dubious institution whose wokeness has made it absolutely poisonous, wants to continue expanding its fiefdom of identity politics museums indefinitely while gobbling up tax dollars and the Mall.
The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Thursday released its recommendations for the optimal sites to place the proposed National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Both sites are on the National Mall, a location that the museums’ promoters have lobbied for, despite some political opposition.
“As of today, we are one step closer to achieving the dream of a long-awaited Latino Museum and Women’s Museum,” said Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.).
The Mall should be used to celebrate America and the Smithsonian has a stunningly bad track record with its identity politics museums. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History has demonstrated that enough with Justice Clarence Thomas who was excluded and then only eventually minimally included after political pressure from Republicans.
The museum conspicuously failed to acknowledge the accomplishments of one of America’s most consequential and inspiring black leaders in the past quarter century: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It instead saw fit to praise Justice Thomas’s nemesis, Anita Hill, as some sort of role model for African-American women because she claimed, with flimsy and contradictory evidence, that she was victimized by an accomplished African-American man.
The museum currently has a ‘whiteness’ section.
Whiteness (and its accepted normality) also exist as everyday microaggressions toward people of color. Acts of microaggressions include verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs or insults toward nonwhites. Whether intentional or not, these attitudes communicate hostile, derogatory, or harmful messages.
And then there was its chart which defined coming on time as whiteness.
No one needs a Mall museum celebrating La Raza, assorted Hispanic Democrats and one glorifying Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton. And that’s exactly what these museums will be.
“Legislative action is necessary before the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents can make its final designations,” the Board wrote in a press release.
That’s because the legislation approving both museums banned construction in what’s called “The Reserve,” essentially a no-build-zone surrounding the National Mall.
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) pushed for that ban, but the museum’s promoters see potential for a bipartisan group to approve the site selection in budget negotiations over the lame-duck session.
Congress should keep this garbage off the Mall. Learn from Bush’s mistake.
Biden’s call mirrored a similar appeal years earlier by former President George W. Bush, whose support was a key step to placing the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) on the Mall.
And the Smithsonian showed its gratitude by using the museum to push racism.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), part of the Smithsonian Institution, has released a shocking new infographic that deems “self-reliance,” “the nuclear family,” “the scientific method,” “the Judeo-Christian Tradition,” “hard work,” “rigid time schedules” and “holidays” as a part of whiteness and white culture.
No more of this.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Just privatize the Smithsonian, and don’t have tax $$$ directed at it. And people opposed to wokeness should start their own memorials to America, be it in red cities or in places where there ain’t enough woke people to vandalize them. If our big blue cities think this nation is evil, fine, but then don’t give them tax money to push whatever perverted message they want in vaunted institutions
James Lincoln says
I think you’re right, Infidel.
Nowadays, we can’t trust the US government to present an accurate view of our own country’s history.
Tragic beyond tragic…
PMK says
I supported Smithsonian for many years and even went on foreign trips they offered. That all ended with the National Museum of African American History’s display of its definition of ‘whiteness’. I sent them a letter that made it clear why I would never again be a ‘Friend of Smithsonian’.
Keith O says
I must be thinking of a different organisation, because when I was growing up we were told that a museum presented evidence which demonstrated “historical facts”, not invented concepts that have precious little to do with reality.
As a side note, the Smithsonian institute has a very bad reputation here in Australia as an organisation that makes artefacts “disappear” so that they don’t interfere with an agenda or storyline that the directors want to promote.
For instance, the skeletons of the giants with red hair that were found in a cave in the American desert areas. Try finding them in the museum!!!
Scotsman48 says
The poster accompanying this article about ”whiteness” has a black guy holding a Barbell… Kinda weird that..
Ive noticed that every ethnic group in America gets a label attached to them from their heritage as its Hispanic Americans Asian American African American but its always White American and the word… white..never seems to be capitalized and so why are Caucasians in America not known as European Americans as that is the Race that built America up to what it is today and the Race and Male Gender that created the modern world all the other Races are living in on a daily basis.
Hispanics and Asians know where their heritage came from they can name which country etc, European Americans can always tell you their heritage, country and sometimes even the Town or City their ancestors came from, the Negro in America merely says Africa, the motherland which is a Continent five times larger than the 48 States in mainland America, but Caucasians are still known as White and not European American… Such racism has to stop, after all, the rest of the Races of the World are ALL pouring into North America, Europe, Australia,New Zealand, which are countries controlled and mainly populated by Caucasians as I dont see too many Africans sneaking into India, Japan, Saudi,Kuwait or China and demand they get fed and housed as they only seem to expect that from those whom they call racists… Those of European heritage… Or will I now be known as a racist for mentioning such racism… Im a proud European American… Deal with it…
Personally I dont give a damn, call me what you wish, but the truth hurts.
Alkflaeda says
Always find it amazing that the Left is so supportive of Planned Parenthood, with its eugenicist roots. I guess the next project will be The Margaret Sanger Museum of Reproductive Rights.