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What African American Supreme Court Justice?
The National Museum of African American History & Culture, Joel Mason-Gaines.
It turns out the new National Museum of African American History and Culture determined the second African American Justice on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, considered to be one of the greatest jurists of our time, has made no contributions worthy of note.
Well, he did get away with sexually harassing Anita Hill because an all-white-male Senate committee didn’t care much about the rights of a professional black woman. His life experience overcoming racial discrimination in coastal Georgia and throughout his life is certainly not worthy of retelling.
I’m not sure how this happened and why there isn’t more pressure to fix this glaring bias. It sends the message that blacks hold a variety of left-wing ideas and there’s no need to pay attention to those unconventional radicals. I seriously think there ought to be a petition to get this rectified and would be willing to give it my support. I can’t put up with this crap.
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I will try to find out who deals with African American stuff for DCYRs. We gotta have someone.
Who is whiter than Marx? What is more western than Marxist ideology? What, excluding the Gospel, is more multicolored than colorblindness, freedom of markets, freedom of religion, and rule of law?
Well, according to the web site:
Also it claims lead architect Philip Freelon is “the leading designer for African American museums today.” With qualifications like that, he must know what he’s doing…
Or Booker T. Washington.
Went to the the site for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: nmaahc.si.edu
Went to their SEARCH function, and tried Booker T. Washington, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas, and Condoleezza Rice.
There were a few innocuous words for Booker T. Washington, but there were also no more than a few for his socialist counterpart W.E.B. Du Bois, so that balances out.
The non-mention of Clarence Thomas is almost balanced out by the near non-mention of liberal justice Thurgood Marshall.
Incredibly, the search function found no mention of any of the others.
However, considering the paucity of written information on even liberal heroes, I wonder if the museum basically presents little more than pictures and exhibits.
Would not seem to be a place for serious scholars or students, just good for a quick walk through for people who want to absorb a bit of the party line without exerting themselves too much.
Don’t want to prejudge it too harshly, but that’s the impressionI get from their site.
Udvar Hazy is amazing! And I say that as a non-tech person. The space shuttle and stealth bomber are amazing but it is the running loop of Medal of Honor winners feeling their stories that get us every time.
Open Invite: if anyone is ever visiting, let me know as well I’ve about 20’minites away and would be happy to feed you after a long museum day.
Fortunately, the curators have seen it fit to include him. Here’s an interesting fact about Mr. Douglass from their exhibit: Did you know he posthumously changed his party affiliation in 1972 to the Democratic party, and that he voted in every election since then? Imagine that!
I saw one of those at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. You put apples on one level, oranges on one, and bananas on another. Or onions or something.
DC Meet-Up in May? African American Museum, followed by critique over supper and, because y’all are connected, beer with cops?
Good post. This is proof positive that the left really does not care about racial equality. They use racial issue to push the big government/socialist agenda.
They intimidate dissenters, black and white, using racial pressure. Dissenting white they call racists. Dissenting blacks they call Uncle Toms (or the modern equivalent, since literature seems be deemphasized in modern “education”).
I appreciate your legwork on it because I was looking around the site and wasn’t finding much using the search function. However, I don’t think the site and the actual museum are in parallel in terms of what’s displayed. I think it’s more of an off-shoot mean to whet the appetite of out-of-town-ers to come visit.
I think the imbalance comes more from the fact that they do talk about Anita Hill. That’s where the only mention of Thomas comes up, and in a negative light at that.
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Natural History museum has an outstanding room or two or three of Paleontology, another of stones and another of jewels. I make a point to visit Washington DC when I can just to see these again.
I think this is right. It wasn’t that long ago that all museums were simple collections of objects with no websites at all. Some museums have amazing websites, but we shouldn’t read too much into any specific museum not putting a lot of money into that aspect of their existence, particularly when they’ve only just opened. Indeed, I guess I’d kind of prefer to see federally funded institutions taking a budget conscious approach.
Here’s a model of an early stage design:
Someone cleaned up overnight and when the boss saw the stack in the corner the next morning he shouted “Brilliant!”
I didn’t know he died in Chicago.
Man, that person gets around. The Eisenhower Memorial, WWII memorial, 9/11 Memorial…
What is it, a heat sink?
Po, Hoya, and MWM,
Tastelessness is the new normal.
Regards,
Jim
How very, very sad.