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'A welcome rebuke to dead white men': The Smithsonian's African American museum finally arrives
UK Guardian ^ | September 16, 2016 | Oliver Wright

Posted on 09/16/2016 6:07:57 AM PDT by C19fan

A small circular piggybank stands on display in Washington DC, featuring a drawing of a grand neoclassical edifice, much like the ones that march up and down the city’s National Mall, where America’s cultural and historical booty is housed. Except this building was to be different. “The National Negro Memorial,” reads the title above the drawing – a plan for a monument where “the achievements of the Negro may be placed before the world”.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: black; smithsonian
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Probably joins the Museum of the Native American as one of the worsts museums evah. I will keep visiting the "dead white men" museums.
1 posted on 09/16/2016 6:07:57 AM PDT by C19fan
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The racists want a race war. Nobody is going to win, especially them.


2 posted on 09/16/2016 6:09:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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Why should the media try to diminish certain people’s contributions in order to promote others’. There are enough achievements to go around! But the media just loves to divide. Just like Democrats.


3 posted on 09/16/2016 6:10:03 AM PDT by winner3000
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'A welcome rebuke to dead white men': The Smithsonian's African American museum finally arrives

Of course they waited until they were safely dead to "rebuke" them.

4 posted on 09/16/2016 6:10:43 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Those dead white men are in the basket of deplorables....


5 posted on 09/16/2016 6:13:28 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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Charleston SC. also has one opening in the next couple of years. I hear that there are plenty of others in the works. I would rather have a few that I might want to go to rather than one in almost every city diluting the subject that they want to showcase. I’m OK with civil rights exhibits but if they harp on the white guilt/modern social justice manure I’ll pass.

Imagine all of the school classes that will be forced to go to those museums on field trips.


6 posted on 09/16/2016 6:15:21 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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'A welcome rebuke to dead white men'

We've had eight solid years of the Obama Administration existing for no other purpose...what's so "welcome" about these latecomers? :)

7 posted on 09/16/2016 6:16:46 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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[shrug] My culture is better than their culture. Just a fact.


8 posted on 09/16/2016 6:17:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Peanut butter, traffic signals and spin around rims..?


9 posted on 09/16/2016 6:19:40 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ya, its really rather sad. These people bring only death, destruction and proverty wherever they go.


10 posted on 09/16/2016 6:20:19 AM PDT by 556x45
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[shrug] My culture is better than their culture. Just a fact.

worth repeating!!!!!

Yep

And would not even bring it up but this is tit for tat!

FRIDAY! LOL


11 posted on 09/16/2016 6:25:09 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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And after they’d made the very contributions that allowed a later generation of spoiled ingrates to do so.

Without those dead white men, the whiners would be dead of elephantiasis in some sinkhole on the Serengeti or lion lunch in Botswana.


12 posted on 09/16/2016 6:32:01 AM PDT by IronJack
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Exactly 100 years after the founding of the National Memorial Association, which distributed these pocket-sized coin-banks as encouragements to start saving for the construction of a repository of African American culture

So they finally saved enough money to build this museum? /sarc

13 posted on 09/16/2016 6:43:52 AM PDT by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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Probably joins the Museum of the Native American as one of the worsts museums evah. I will keep visiting the "dead white men" museums.

I agree about the Museum of the Native American, but there are, in fact, no "dead white men's" muesums on the Mall. Natural History? History and Technology? The National Gallery of Art? The East Wing? The Hirschorn (a museum to execrable art, to be sure, but ecumenical as to race, color, and creed)? The Freer Gallery? Air and Space?

The Smithsonian, in fact, already had a National Museum of African Art, which is exactly one more ethnic museum than the white folks have. The Freer houses Asian collections, and very good collections at that; no one considers it an ethnic museum, though in a way it is. The Indians now have an ethnic museum. I suppose next we'll have to have an Hispanic Museum. But there will still be no "white" museum, unless you assume that high culture, science and technology, and natural history are "white," which of course they aren't.

14 posted on 09/16/2016 6:51:25 AM PDT by sphinx
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The racists want a race war. Nobody is going to win

Right. Wrong.

15 posted on 09/16/2016 6:53:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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To: winner3000

Ah! The point is that not all achievements are equal. And they must be made so.


16 posted on 09/16/2016 6:55:27 AM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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The National Negro Memorial


Alas, not likely. The "National Negro" remains, and is very much alive. Importing slaves was the greatest, most devastating mistake we ever made, and we will pay for it until our country is bled to death. I promise that, I say that as a Southerner and only a second-generation American.

17 posted on 09/16/2016 6:56:11 AM PDT by golux
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Why should the media try to diminish certain people’s contributions in order to promote others’. There are enough achievements to go around! But the media just loves to divide. Just like Democrats.

The media are Democrats.

18 posted on 09/16/2016 6:57:28 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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What a racist trash museum. Those who visit it probably should have mental evaluations.


19 posted on 09/16/2016 7:00:43 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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Why can’t we celebrate the one w/o insulting the other?


20 posted on 09/16/2016 7:00:56 AM PDT by tiki
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