Posted on 09/24/2016 9:37:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Centuries of struggles and strife, decades of planning and pain, and years of hoping for a place that African American history can call home will culminate as President Obama officially opens the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Obama tweeted from his presidential Twitter account Saturday morning that he was "Proud to help open @NMAAHC with so many heroes. African American history is a central part of our glorious American history."
Before formally opening the museum, Obama will ring the Freedom Bell, acquired in 1886 by the historic First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Va., believed to be among the first Baptist churches organized entirely by African Americans for African Americans. It will be returned to the church for its 240th anniversary later this year.
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The Indians I’ve known personally have no real problem with it. I think a lot of the more ‘activist’ ones do.
How ironic that the “Black” president who opened this museum is descended from African Muslim slave traders and White American slave owners. NOTHING in common with Black descendants of slavery. Yet he pretends to be, and everyone just accepts it.
Canada uses “First Nations.” Seems very awkward, especially because the aboriginal peoples really didn’t create “nations” as we know them.
I asked a Black lady this when he was first elected, because it seemed he had nothing really in common with most of the Black people who voted for him. She supposed that he ‘looks like them, so maybe they think he’ll understand their issues’.
I want a special museum for European-Americans and their huge contributions to America, science, math, inventions, discovery, freedom, constitutionalism, et all. And I demand it NOW.
Thank You!
I think most of the National Mall fills that want.
I wonder if they’ll have no blacks working there the way they have no Native Americans at the Native American Museum. I doubt it.
The way liberals look at things, you will be considered racist to declare you won’t go to that museum.
Another one or two democrat presidents and a visit to the museum will be mandatory.
Every government school will be required to conduct a field trip to the museum for all students to totally immerse them in white guilt.
An American Indian once said that your typical Indian loves his guns, his hunting, and his pickup truck, making him more `redneck’ than `redskin’.
Hmmm, seems racist. S/ 😃😎 I agree bro. When do we get ours? We don't, I guess.
It's in the middle of the mall but it'll never draw another crowd like today.
It'll be all coerced school trips and tourists trying to get a bit of air conditioning in the lobby when walking between the memorials.
This is a monument to hypocracy...hype slavery with a national memorial and tear down confederate memorials to unhype slavery.
That’s disgusting, but you are probably right, unfortunately.
The ‘native Americans’ are descendants of immigrants from Siberia and northeastern Asia. They just immigrated here before the rest of us did.
That’s been my experience, but I haven’t known ‘reservation Indians’, only those who have been at least a generation away.
Hopefully they will feature exhibits of northern whites, that gave life and limb in opposition to slavery.
Abolition was partly a religious movement. One of my ancestors moved from New Brunswick to Minnesota in 1856, and after war broke out, he enlisted in Wisconsin.
His family was Baptist in Canada. I doubt he had much interest in North/South issues. Just abolition.
He was blinded for life, in battle.
There have been donations along the way from prominent donors, private foundations, etc. but the bulk of the costs have been and will be pried from the wallets of hard-pressed U.S. taxpayers.
There have been several acts of Congress appropriating tax money for this macabre Aztec-pyramid-tomb building over the years. Did your congressman or senator ever tell you about this in their "letters" to you over the years?
The final cost of construction, the projected future cost to taxpayers of artifact purchases, perpetual maintenance, equipment and furnishings, personnel costs, state-of-the-art show-biz displays and events, etc. will probably never be revealed or known.
As an aside, years ago Congress proposed constructing a good-sized wing on to one of the existing Smithsonian buildings (at a substantial decrease in cost), but the black/Democrat/liberal political bloc refused this proposal.
No wonder we're trillions in debt. The Uniparty majority in both Houses blithely keep spending like there's no tomorrow...and we drained-out chumps out here don't even know half of what they're doing.
Leni
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