Smithsonian Museum Director Interested in Acquiring Trayvon Martin's Hoodie

DCist ^ | July 31, 2013 | Benjamin R. Freed

[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.’”

[kevcol]

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

[svcw]

vomit

[tet68]

Shroud of Trayvon Bump.

[Red Badger]

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

[DaveA37]

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

[TurboZamboni]

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

[Irenic]

Foolishness.

[ladyjane]

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

Not only that - it’s tray-ed marked.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Martin is this generation’s Emmett Till, Sharpton says.

More like Horst Wessel.

[sappy]

Used once. Small hole and stain.

[glorgau]

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

[New Jersey Realist]

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

[digger48]

sad part is, they probably will put it there

[PowderMonkey]

Absolutely. This time around, however, they won't find the “Juden” so easy to round up.

[massgopguy]

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

[ExCTCitizen]

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?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Yes.

[Hardraade]

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

[ryan71]

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

[sappy]

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