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Smithsonian Museum Director Interested in Acquiring Trayvon Martin's Hoodie
DCist ^ | July 31, 2013 | Benjamin R. Freed

Posted on 07/31/2013 10:52:23 AM PDT by kevcol

Lonnie Bunch, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, told the Post he'd "love" to acquire the sweatshirt for a collection, an idea endorsed by the Rev. Al Sharpton:
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"“It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case. It’s rare that you get one artifact that really becomes the symbol,” Bunch said. “Because it’s such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama.”

Curators, he mused, could “ask the bigger questions” prompted by the case. “Are we in a post-racial age?” Bunch asked, dreaming about how the hoodie might help shape perceptions. Then he answered the question: “This trial says, ‘No.’”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; georgezimmerman; smithsonian; thuglife; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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Lonnie Bunch:


I wonder how much the (tax payer funded) Smithsonian would pay the parents for this Hoodie and what Al Sharpton's cut would be?

Also, from the referenced Washington Post article about this:

“I would like to see it preserved,” the Rev. Al Sharpton proclaimed into a cellphone on his way to a White House meeting about voting rights with President Obama.

Sharpton, more than any other person, might be responsible for bringing the Martin killing to trial. He organized the huge rally in Sanford that brought such pressure on Florida officials that the governor eventually appointed a special prosecutor to take on the case.

Sharpton is imagining what it would be like if we could see a snatch of clothing worn by Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who became a civil rights icon because he was killed after being accused of flirting with a white woman in 1950s Mississippi. Martin is this generation’s Emmett Till, Sharpton says. He calls the unarmed teenager’s death by a bullet that first pierced his hoodie, and then pierced his heart, the first civil rights flash point of the 21st century

1 posted on 07/31/2013 10:52:23 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

vomit


2 posted on 07/31/2013 10:54:10 AM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: kevcol

Shroud of Trayvon Bump.


3 posted on 07/31/2013 10:54:51 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kevcol

He’ll have to get it from the ‘Just Us Department’............


4 posted on 07/31/2013 10:55:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: svcw

That is “evidence” and needs to be destroyed once the dust settles on the case. Give me the match and I will burn it.


5 posted on 07/31/2013 10:55:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: kevcol

What’s next, a Lincoln memorial sized Saint Trayvon statue?


6 posted on 07/31/2013 10:55:51 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: kevcol

Foolishness.


7 posted on 07/31/2013 10:55:56 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: kevcol

but...but...the Shroud of St. Tray-von of Skittles is a holy relic.

Not only that - it’s tray-ed marked.


8 posted on 07/31/2013 10:56:08 AM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
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To: kevcol
Martin is this generation’s Emmett Till, Sharpton says.

More like Horst Wessel.

9 posted on 07/31/2013 10:57:06 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: kevcol

Used once. Small hole and stain.


10 posted on 07/31/2013 10:57:16 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: kevcol

What they really need to display is the Blue Dress and the Oval Office sink.


11 posted on 07/31/2013 10:59:05 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: kevcol

They better keep it away from Archie Bunker’s chair!


12 posted on 07/31/2013 11:00:08 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: New Jersey Realist

sad part is, they probably will put it there


13 posted on 07/31/2013 11:01:27 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Absolutely. This time around, however, they won't find the “Juden” so easy to round up.
14 posted on 07/31/2013 11:04:46 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: sappy

The AGE of Obama!!!!!!????


15 posted on 07/31/2013 11:05:52 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: kevcol
Lonnie Bunch, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

He shortened his name. His Last name is 'BUNCHOFMORONS'

Remind me to NOT TO GO TO THE SMITHSONIAN ever again. A hoodie worn by a THUG? Why not the skittles and the ice tea, too?

16 posted on 07/31/2013 11:10:37 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul or Sara/Nikki in 2016)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Yes.


17 posted on 07/31/2013 11:11:24 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: kevcol

Give them the skull. For the neanderthal shelves. The Director can reserve a space right next to it.


18 posted on 07/31/2013 11:12:43 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: kevcol

In 30 years, it will be an important symbol in the left’s communist revolution. So they think.


19 posted on 07/31/2013 11:17:23 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: massgopguy

age of obama would be HUGE GAPING SOLARVERSE USED MANY TIMES. lol


20 posted on 07/31/2013 11:19:49 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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