Trump accused of bleaching slavery by visitors to the Museum of Black History

Washington – “Coco”. “Ignorant.” “Dangerous.” “Mistaken.”

Those are just some of the visiting words of the National Museum of African -American History and Culture of Smithsonian used this week to describe the idea that museums in the capital of the nation are focusing too much “what slavery it was“As President Donald Trump said last week.

The Trump administration accused the Smithsonian institution, which is almost 180 years old and consists of 21 museums financed by the federal government, to promote “inadequate ideology.” To counteract that alleged ideology, the Administration has launched a “integral internal review” of the institution to “guarantee alignment with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, eliminate divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.”

Or, as Trump said in a social truth of the truth of August 19 mailEliminate alleged “awakening” exhibitions in favor of more “brightness” and “success.”

A Trump assistant who led to that review echoed the president’s comment, saying that he had seen a “Excessive emphasis on slavery“In museums.

“I think there should be more emphasis on how far we have come from slavery,” said Lindsey Halligan, former Trump lawyer who is now his secretary of Senior associate staff, in News.

But visitors who leave the world’s largest museum dedicated to African -American history and culture, which include artifacts such as a vessel of Portuguese slaves and the Harriet Tubman abolitionist chal, said on Wednesday that slavery rests at the center of the history of the nation and that its legacies are independible.

“It’s ignorant because the country was based on slavery. So how do you ignore that?” Gwendolyn Pavana, a resident of Maryland, told News themezone.

“You can’t really emphasize slavery. It happened to everyone,” Marissa added, a Maryland nurse who refused to give her last name. “That is not something you could simply take away. You won’t go anywhere, no matter what you try to hide it. There will always be history about slavery.”

“He is trying to recover the United States,” he said about Trump. “He doesn’t want people to advance. They want the United States to be what he remembered was when he was younger.”

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The “original sin” of the United States has shaped its culture, economy and politics since its foundation. It has contributed to racial inequality and influenced today The best political debateseven about Racial gerrymandering before the middle of the period of next year. One of the most seen cases of the Supreme Court that is coming over the country this year will depend on whether Disassemble the Voting Rights Lawwhich passed to protect black Americans, who needed protection due to suppression during the era after the slavery of Jim Crow.

Willie Green, a retired fiscal consultant from Sacramento, California, said Trump’s review of the DC museums beaten from “the story of money laundering and rewriting it as something he wants to be, not necessarily what is the truth.”

“We are in a sad chapter,” he told News themezone. “I think we are at a point of a dictator who seizes the country, changing it to what he wants to be.”

Keith Wych, a forklift operator from the Richmond area, Virginia, called the slavery of the phases in the “crazy” and “incorrect” museums. His wife, Delores, said that the country has traveled a long way from slavery, but that its legacy still lasts for their community.

“We would like us to be treated equally. Even at work, people act like this, but it is not true. It is not true yet,” he added.

Kel Nagle, 77, and his wife, from Salisbury, Maryland, said they came to see the museum before the Trump administration censored or eliminated certain exhibitions.

“I think it is really dangerous for them to rewrite American history. Yes, American history includes many bad things, many great things. I think we have a great country, and if we can overcome this administration and return to moderate people, we will be fine again,” he said.

The Trump review of the Smithsonian museums occurs in the middle of the widest crusade of its administration against diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government, and in private institutions and companies. Those efforts have included searching Cancel funds to non -profit organizations that mainly serve people of color and communities LGBTQ+, as well as depuration Federal websites that include data, research and history in these groups.

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DC museums, which are free for the public, have already felt the effects of repression. The National Portrait Gallery lost a show of an artist who refused To eliminate a painting from a transgender woman to appease Trump’s priorities. Meanwhile, the National Museum of the History of the United States caused the conviction to eliminate references to the two Trump accusations of an exhibition about accused presidents, although it later reversed the course. The African -American History Museum also He pressed the fire to return artifacts related to civil rights to the owners who had not requested them. The museum called it standard practice, but critics alleged that the measure was linked to the Trump review of the Cultural Institutions of DC.

A Smithsonian worker who requested anonymity to protect his work also told News themezone earlier this month that “All are so scared“Within the organization.

“They are trying to erase the story before our own eyes,” Senator Raphael Warnock (D-G.), The first African American to represent Georgia in the Senate and the first black democrat chosen for the Senate of a southern state, saying in social networks in response to the review of the White House.

Tobias Downs, a 45 -year -old engineer from New Jersey who brought his teenage daughter to experience the African -American History Museum on Wednesday, said it was important to have a place where the real story can be told.

“When he grew up, they taught us more about Christopher Columbus, and they never told us the complete story of Christopher Columbus and his companies and slaves. We have something where we can, such as finding our story in one place and being precise,” he told News themezone. “I don’t understand, what is the big problem about learning what really happened in history and not just wanting to toncony it to try to be kind?”