Posted on 09/24/2016 5:54:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama on Friday celebrated the pending opening of the Smithsonian’s new African-American museum and said the institution, decades in the making, is a powerful place because it tells “the story of all of us,” not just the famous.
Obama also said he hoped the museum would help people bridge divides that were re-exposed by the latest fatal, police-involved shootings of black men. […]
“What makes the museum so powerful and so visceral is that it’s the story of all of us, the folks whose names you never heard of, but whose contributions, day after day, decade after decade, combined to push us forward and the entire nation forward,” Obama said, mentioning maids, porters and others who stood up for themselves despite daily assaults on their dignity. …
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Obama does have a connection to American slavery...on his mother's side. Some of his ancestors were slaveholders in the US.
From what I could see on the news last night about this building, it looks like the black heap of stone in Mecca!!!
I think we should demolish it...THEY would do it if it was a building honoring OUR history!
Will the new African-American museum have a list of names of people who died to free them?.
uhhh, you were raised by white people, as was our friend Colin. In other words, both of you were abandoned by the black fathers you think so much of, and would have starved without the generosity of your white ‘adversaries’. Where would Obama and Kapernick be without private schools, charity of the race they hate?
Yes, they would, and in a hurry too.
The WASHINGTONIANS sure know how to waste a dollar.
I’m sure this thing will rank last in attendance out of all the museums.
They can take their guilt trip propaganda BS and stick it.
Not interested.
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