Smithsonian Begins Removing Exhibits, Artifacts From African American History Museum

Fucking Nazis.

Wow. How can anybody deny what a HUGE part of American history and current culture the black story is. Magats are just obvious racists

Can the museum ever get them back?

Fuck!

The majority voted for this. I don't know what to say beyond that, other than it might be time to stop getting upset over every single thing because we're not even 10% into this term yet.

One of the most popular and moving displays is the one devoted to Emmett Till's coffin; if Trump's minions attempt to shut it down, expect big protests.

Unless they try to claim that Till just accidentally fell into Tallahatchie River.

im fapping

I wonder if all of those protest voters from the Muslim, Latino and Black Men's voting blocks are having Proctalgia Fugax over this.

I hope what is being removed is preserved somewhere, somehow. We cannot afford to lose our past -even if we have done a very poor job of learning from it.

Not black, but I am literally sick over this.

[quote]The majority voted for this. I don't know what to say beyond that, other than it might be time to stop getting upset over every single thing because we're not even 10% into this term yet.

We don't know the future. Maybe we're more like 90 percent into his term and just don't know it yet.

I am NOT standing up for the idiots who voted for this administration, but I seriously don't think the majority were voting for THIS. They were foolish/stupid/ignorant enough to believe that egg prices would come down and things would improve for them. They weren't voting on culture wars as much as economic hardships. Sure, the rest of us saw this coming -because we listened and put the pieces together. We can play the blame game forever, but it won't help us to solve the problem. We need to get people united with the goal of ending this regime as quickly as possible.

This is awful. Black and Native American history should be preserved and available to all.

Economic issues were cited by many voters, R11, but we can't separate MAGA from racism and hatred of immigrants.

"Economic issues were cited by many voters......"

So they voted for the asshole who caused their retirement savings to shrink exponentially in his first 100 days in office?

If ever a situation warranted that people truly get what they deserve, this is the one.

I hope this is circulated all over black platforms so the 20% of black folk who voted for Trump can see what they've done.

MAGAts are getting exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately, those of us with functioning brains are also getting screwed.

Maybe three months ago, I was standing in line at the Walmart to pay for my groceries behind (I think) a Puerto Rican woman. Because I'm practicing my Spanish whenever I get the chance, I struck up a conversation with her. I mentioned that they're putting in a new Tractor Supply store up the road from me, and now the small, local, and very helpful independent hardware store is almost out of business. And she said, with big eyes and in all earnestness, "Oh, I'm sure they'll be fine! Trump will help them! He knows we're the people who voted for him, and he's going to take care of us."

Lord love a duck.

Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Ruth Gordon, Harvey Korman, Max Showalter.

Goes to show the world was fucked up back then, too!

As George Orwell once noted, conservatives are obsessed with re-writing the past. They return to it, over and over, trying to get the result they want.

A Spanish friend was staying at a Marriott for an extended trip around the time of the election. Being naturally curious, he spoke to a number of the hotel's Latino employees to get their opinions on Dump.

They overwhelmingly voted for Dump.

And they will regret it for years to come...

R18 - huh? What do those names have anything to do with anything?

Perhaps they'll know people who get deported. Oh, well.

Google the movie Lord Love a Duck, R22...

It’s wild to see these Trumpers on Facebook. They really do honestly believe that Trump cares about them and has their best interests at heart. It’s really sad, but that’s what a cult does.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

I found the African American History Museum always relatively restrained with respect to politics and ideology. Compared to certain arts museums at least. I can’t imagine that they touch the slavery and Civil Rights section.

Good.

R27 if you bothered to read the first paragraph that OP linked you would know that they’re starting with dismantling civil rights-era displays, including the iconic Woolworth’s counter.

Dismantling and destroying anything that is not White Christo-Fascist in ideology.

[quote]The majority voted for this.

Including a lot of young black men (twice as many as the first term) and famous rappers. So.....you reap what you sow.

Sorry, these voters are not just stupid, ignorant and deceived. They’re morally deficient, bad people to support this disgusting man who’s told us exactly who he is for a decade. Lousy people and worthless citizens.

R11 The CAPS FRAU wants you to KNOW

I VOTED FOR TRUMP

but NOT THIS

BELIEVE ME!

It's in CAPS y'all.

A white supremacy cult is running the government. Of course they are going to target the African American History museum and anything that makes white people look bad

r33 does not know when emphasis caps are used.

Bold is too complicated a maneuver here.

There are no underlines in this font.

And whoever said that caps were shouting,

has missed the whole point of communication on the internet.

I read dump and friends are hands off the Woolworth counter-for this week anyway…

They really are doing the most to get Black people riled up enough to protest en masse so they can turn the hoses and German Shepherds loose on them and hang them from live oak trees again.

I am so happy Black people haven't risen to the bait so far. When they (especially Black women) declared "We are fucking DONE with this" after 11/5/24, I was thrilled.

"Oh, Black people, please come protest march with us--we Latinos are getting disrespected and mistreated by Trump!" "Oh Black people, we need you to protest with us Muslims--we're being treated unfairly by Trump!" "Ooh, Black women, we really need your help--Trump is rolling the clock back on (White) women's rights!"

Nope.

How can longtime American institutions just crumble to these ridiculous “Executive Orders?” Arent these for important stuff like wartime powers? It also seems unconstitutional (MAGA territory).

r37 Uh, you're 100% wrong. We need to get out in the streets and protest. Bring it on. We can't be silent and let them roll over us.

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It's personal.

I was last in the US just before Covid, and I remember that the climax of the African American History museum's regular exhibition was Obama becoming President. We know how well that goes down with the present administration.

I can't remember--does the museum also cover the Central Park Five? Another exceedingly low point in Dump's snake-low career.