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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

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To: C19fan

This elevating of special groups started in the 90’s, during the Clinton Admin. They did their best to divide us as a nation, but 9/11 intervened and the divisions became less. Now the Obama Admin has been very successful at dividing us into many special interest groups and pitting groups against each other. I remember Dennis Prager talking in the 90’s, about a history textbook that actually told of the discovery of the Hudson River by a Polish explorer. It wasn’t true of course, but the textbook company wanted Poles to be proud of their heritage. Truth has fallen by the wayside in order to elevate ‘groups’ above each other. Seems like a backlash against whites and ‘white privilege’.....never mind that whites did a great job in the founding of this country and in her continued success.....until the Age of Obama.


21 posted on 09/16/2016 7:13:36 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: sphinx

If there is ANYTHING/ANYPLACE that doesn’t elevate a minority, it is by default an affront to minorities and a false palace for whites. I guess you haven’t been paying attention the last 8 years.


22 posted on 09/16/2016 7:16:31 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: sphinx

Oops. Forgot the sarcasm tag.......


23 posted on 09/16/2016 7:17:19 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: tiki
Why can’t we celebrate the one w/o insulting the other?

An important question.

Note that when people said "All Lives Matter" they were attacked as racists who were consumed with hatred for black people.

Huh?

We are allowed forced to praise and promote blacks at every turn. To fail to do so is to be a racist. If you take time out to say a kind word about anyone who is not black, then that is racist also, and a "dog whistle" that you wish to bring back Jim Crow.

24 posted on 09/16/2016 7:42:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: C19fan

Any celebration of African cannibalism? Any celebration of African-American slaughter of each other and every other race? Any celebration of 70+% children born out of wedlock? Any celebration of the complete breakdown of the black family? Any celebration of high welfare rate, the destruction of our big cities under black control, the thousands of black criminal gangs, and on and on and on? So much material to celebrate.


25 posted on 09/16/2016 8:19:05 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: C19fan
A small circular piggybank stands on display in Washington DC, (...) a monument where “the achievements of the Negro may be placed before the world”.

Well, they got the size right at least...

26 posted on 09/16/2016 8:34:34 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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It’s funny, the Libs LOVE Europe, a continent whose History, culture and continuing prosperity is because of the fascination with the lives and works of “dead white men”,i.e. Picasso, Mozart, etc....who in the Hell would visit Europe if not for the legacy of these giants?


27 posted on 09/16/2016 8:38:48 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: Uncle Sam 911
Any celebration of African-American slaughter of each other and every other race?

Speaking of which ...

Hey Jackass: Illustrating Chicago Values.

28 posted on 09/16/2016 8:40:02 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: C19fan

I was in DC last summer, and saw the ugly monstrosity being built.

It will join the “modern art” Hirschorn Museum as one Smithsonian museum that I will never visit.

That is not to denigrate black folks - MANY of them have made invaluable contributions to our nation throughout the course of its history, and MANY have been just like most white or hispanic folks - just anonymously going through life, important only to their family, friends and co-workers, but contributing to society by being law-abiding, tax-paying citizens who raised their kids well and love/loved their country - despite its flaws. Special thanks to those black folks who fought for this nation, or otherwise served it in the armed forces, or as first responders.

But a museum dedicated to being just like Obama - in your face to most of the country - isn’t going to see me inside of it.


29 posted on 09/16/2016 9:05:20 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Does this mean they can pull all the black, hispanic, oriental etc displays out of the BIG museum and rename it Caucasian Museum?


30 posted on 09/16/2016 10:06:06 AM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: golux
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.

Maybe not. Black Americans aren't replacing their numbers. In another 50 years there may be as few as 10 million left.

31 posted on 09/16/2016 10:24:20 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: C19fan
Gonna be a pretty sparse museum.

Unless dead rappers and gang members are on display.

32 posted on 09/16/2016 12:44:51 PM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The racists want a race war. Nobody is going to win, especially them.”

(Language warning)

Black Guy Explains Why Blacks Will Lose A Race War - Extended Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJZ2haLPCw


33 posted on 09/16/2016 12:46:32 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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'A welcome rebuke to dead white men': The Smithsonian's African American museum finally arrives
Probably joins the Museum of the Native American as one of the worsts museums evah.

Ya think?!!?

I wouldn't make an extra trip, but if I'm ever in DC again, I would drop in to check on their major accomplishments, each of which, I assume will boast its own hall:

1. The knockout Game Hall.
2. The Gangrape Hall.
3. The auto hijack hall.
4. The 1968 Black Power Olympics Hall.
5. The Thugball 1 Hall.
6. The Thugball 2 Hall.
7. The Rapper shootouts hall.
8. The Congressional Black caucus Hall.
9. The Black Panthers Hall.
10. The New Black Panthers Hall.
11. The Nation of Islam Hall.
12. The Jazz Music Hall.
13. The Rap hall.

How many Halls in the place anyway?
Well one out of 13 ain't bad.
I just wonder which will be the largest, most popular hall?

34 posted on 09/16/2016 2:09:53 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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The codified reverse racism & special laws hall, BLT hall, BLM hall, wilding hall, (speaking of their own people) bitchez and ho’s hall, cop-killing hall, homicidal & misogynistic rap lyrics hall, spinner wheels & kilowatt sub-sonic trunk speaker hall, ebonics hall, chip on shoulder hall, I’m owed hall, etc etc etc.


35 posted on 09/16/2016 2:34:09 PM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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To: C19fan

only authentic if its an african mud hut building with no electricity and no indoor bathrooms/water. otherwise they are appropriating white culture while dissing it.


36 posted on 09/16/2016 5:56:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: publius911

I can’t believe you don’t have a Rioting & Looting Hall (maybe it should be Looter Guy Hall).

I think it’s rich this is opening up while more of their “protests” are going on. I had no idea about this outrage until this morning on FOX. Bad enough that damn Indian museum there. Not crazy about Holocaust Museum being here, either (though it’s not on the Mall).

The whole area should just be renamed Grievance Park now.


37 posted on 09/24/2016 12:16:26 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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