The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance

[Nevilledog]

https://blackpressusa.com/the-smithsonian-purge-trump-team-removes-artifacts-of-black-resistance/


BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE – Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.

“This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build. Here’s another distraction in his quest for attention. Another failure of his first 100 days,” said North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams, responding to efforts to physically remove the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit from the National Museum of African American History and Culture—affectionately known as the “Blacksonian.”

The exhibit features portions of the original lunch counter and highlights the story of four Black male students from North Carolina A&T who were brutally attacked after sitting at the whites-only counter Feb. 1, 1960. When denied service, the students refused to leave. Their defiance ignited a wave of lunch counter sit-ins across the South and became a major flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement.

Adams added, “We are long past the time when you can erase history—anyone’s history. You can take down exhibits, close buildings, take down websites, ban books, and try to change history, but we are long past that point. We will never forget!”

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[3catwoman3]

1. This is disgusting and pathetic.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trump is destroying America's history, culture, society.

Wiping out evidence of brave Americans who moved the country forward.

We are de-evolving.

[lapfog_1]

3. the more they try to erase history

the more history will be written about the attempt

[Botany]

6. + 1

Both North and South were built on slavery, genocide, and in a lot of cases cruel forms
of Christianity such as the Pope giving his O.K. to the slave trade because God was good
with it because they really were not as human as White Europeans. Real History.

Racist, sexist, anti science, anti history and anti LGBT dirt bag mother fuckers.

Btw when was the last time a trans person bothered one of these mouth breathing
shits?

[Biophilic]

4. They are so F'ing scared of history.

I thought they were the best of the best. The new white leaders set to begin some new masculine regime. And, yet, they are terrified of history. They are terrified of any evidence that the other side might be strong. What a classic example of how poorly they see themselves, unable to compete.

[Solly Mack]

5. ...

[0rganism]

7. Oooh... this makes me so mad... *seethe*

I swear they do this shit just to get attention for being disgusting and repulsive, like that 8-year-old in a restaurant who runs around tables showing off his mouthful of half-chewed food while his parents look on bemusedly.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Fucking Trumper snow flakes

Black history is part of American history.

[harumph]

9. Institutions like the Smithsonian should be legally firewalled from any president.

Legislation to that effect needs to be passed when democrats retake congress.

In fact, there are a lot of institutions that are taxpayer funded, e.g., NIH, that must be
firewalled FROM ANY PRESIDENT.

The fucked up "legal concept" referred to by the anodyne term "unitary executive" needs to a stake driven into its heart.

Also, the presidential oath of office needs to be more specific and include references to the liberty and welfare of people and not just the constitution.

Oh, and democrats need to pack the court if at all possible. Also, older or declining in health democratic leaning justices need to friggin retire during the first few months of a democratic president, and stop putting their ego ahead of the country.

[electric_blue68]

10. Damn! I wonder if... OK, like 35ish yrs ago on one of my fun [vs protesting]...

visits to DC, amongst other Smithstnian museums I went to The Museum of American History.

Since I don't get to every museum I might to on any singular trip; I went to that one bc they'd recently installed the famous lunch counter. I remember feeling like History was wafting around me!

So I wonder if they transfered it to The Museum of African American History.