The new Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s tagline is “powerful moments in African American history, culture, and community.” However, the museum – with a $540 million price tag funded 50 percent by U.S. taxpayers and with a collection of more than 36,000 artifacts and 100,000 people represented – doesn’t include many prominent blacks, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Edward Brooke, a Republican who became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote in 1966.
After touring the new museum and exploring the website, which contains information on all the exhibitions in it, CNSNews.com asked the Smithsonian why Thomas, Brooke and eight other prominent men and women are not included in the museum.
CNSNews.com asked: “Many prominent African Americans are not included in the museum, most notably Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas … Can [the institute say] why Thomas and the others listed below are not a part of the museum exhibits?”
Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian, replied:
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But I bet tupac and biggie are in it. What a great culture they have. If I'm offended by such trash, where do I go to complain to have it torn down?
ReplyDeleteWhen black successful conservatives are not getting the honor of their stories being told it's racist. Liberal elites, in an effort to control, do this. It's hateful.
ReplyDeleteWhat about a nice exhibit to the women MLK slept with, FBI files say it was over 150 of them!
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ReplyDeleteTranslation: They are or were Republicans so they are automatically excluded.
Looking forward enthusiastically to the Danish, Scotch, Irish, Polish, German, French, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Filipino, Lebanese, etc, etc museums opening. (left off the -American hyphenation of each in the interest of conciseness). But you get the idea.