Posted on 08/01/2013 7:40:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is the grievance industry trying to create a racial Shroud of Turin?
The Smithsonian wants to display the hoodie worn by Tayvon Martin the night he was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Really, is this what we need now? A modern-day abomination: a Turin Shroud for race-mongerers? Will this become a place of pilgrimage for people looking for reasons to hate?
George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder by a jury in Florida. The system worked. Now that has not prevented race-hustlers from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to the New Black Panther Party from trying to capitalize on Martin's death for profit and politics. But does a previously well-regarded federally-funded museum now have to join the carnival acts?
From Fox News:
Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture told The Washington Post Martin's hoodie represents an to further the discussion about race in America.
"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 told the newspaper. "Because it's such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama."
Bunch, who has acquired a guard tower from Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary and the handcuffs used to restrain Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in 2009, said he'd like to have the hoodie for his collection once the legal case is over.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That thing is wet and moldy and smells really bad.
After ten years, it will look like this...
Print images of it on a B27 target and sell them?
That’s what After Trayvon looks like.
I know a better place.
As soon as they display Lewinsky's Blue Dress with the stain Clinton put on it!
What other ethnic groups in the US have their own museum? Is this one govt. funded?
Is there an Italian American, Polish American, French-Canadian/American, Spanish American (white or black), Chinese American(special railroad coolie history post Civil War slave labor story), Phillipine American, Cuban American, Serbian/Croatian American...and so forth... museums? No? Why, because they are White?
It’s important to Balkanize the whole country in order to have the socialist State subjugate all of us.
We have an Italian-American museum not far from where I live (I’ve never been there, I see the signs), and if I head to Chicago on the Kennedy Expway. I see a sign for the Polish-American museum.
“Is the grievance industry trying to create a racial Shroud of Turin?”
Satan up to his counterfeit practices.
This is purely evil.
A new wing will have to be added to house the Martin hoodie.
The shorthand name for the wing will be The H H H Wing, “A Hood’s Hoodie From the Hood”.
What happens to the hoodie when the Democrats next have control of both houses of Congress and vote to build a Trayvon Martin Museum (with taxpayer money)? Will the Smithsonian loan or give the hoodie to the new museum?
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