Posted on 09/24/2016 5:54:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama on Friday celebrated the pending opening of the Smithsonian’s new African-American museum and said the institution, decades in the making, is a powerful place because it tells “the story of all of us,” not just the famous.
Obama also said he hoped the museum would help people bridge divides that were re-exposed by the latest fatal, police-involved shootings of black men. […]
“What makes the museum so powerful and so visceral is that it’s the story of all of us, the folks whose names you never heard of, but whose contributions, day after day, decade after decade, combined to push us forward and the entire nation forward,” Obama said, mentioning maids, porters and others who stood up for themselves despite daily assaults on their dignity. …
(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...
Oh dry up Barry
Actually, to be fair, they should tear it down because it is a reminder of slavery that would make blacks uncomfortable. But if the are not uncomfortable with this, then we can re-instate the confederate memorials and flag as the previous problem is surely over.
he’s pushed America sideways, backwards and upside-down. Good riddance to this traitor
I think he meant:
“Just Us”
Black president, trillions in welfare transfer payments from taxpayers to blacks, race-based affirmative action for decades..and yet we need a Whitey is the Devil museum on the national mall.
This guy would love to have the power of stalin to cram his idea of the way the world is down every ones throat.
Well, there is scheming on behalf of Islam.
Actually, it tells the story of African Americans brought to the United States as slaves from the 17th through to the 19th century and their progress over the 20th century. Not the story of African American’s born in Africa in the 1960s, brought up in a Muslim country and then returning to America to become the Manchurian Candidate. Just saying there Barack.
Nope. Not my story. I had nothing to do with it. And I am able to put it behind me. I’m so over that story.
Sounds like a museum I visited in Nagasaki while in the Navy. It housed all of these atomic blast artifacts designed to shame. Tucked away in the corner was a little room with a picture of some Allied POWs sitting around a table with tin cups in front of them smiling. Like look at how good we treated you and look at what you did to us. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.
It cant possibly be worse that that American Indian monstrosity?
Similar to the Underground Railroad museum they insisted on plunking down on prime real estate on the Cincinnati riverfront. It looks like a mausoleum and attracts about as many visitors.
‘Oh but it’s got a slave hut on display inside!’ they shouted. ‘It’s powerful and moving!’ School students were, inevitably, dragooned into touring it where White Guilt was stoked even though today’s students have nothing to do with the slave trade or any legal segregation (except, of course, for affirmative action).
It bears repeating: Obama’s African heritage is just that. African. He is, culturally, a Pacific Islander. The odd thing about him is the axes he grinds aren’t even his axes and he was raised far away from anything to do with US slavery or Jim Crow.
The reality is that the descendent of black slaves raised in a poor county in Mississippi still has more in common with Sven Svensson of Duluth, Minnesota in terms of an American cultural upbringing - sports, history, electoral politics, entertainment, etc. - than he does with Obama who parachuted onto the mainland relatively late in life and who spent his time here in leftists hothouses on both coasts and in one huge Midwest city.
Obama has always been a stranger to America. Those who moan about cultural appropriation need look no further than their current president who hijacks history in order to spew his odious brand of anti-patriotism.
Neat!
So it tells the story about his ancestry, where his ancestors were slave traders and slave owners in Africa?
How his wife's family could have been captured and sold by his family - back in the day?
How Progressive... /s
“All of us,” for the Bamster, are blacks, and them alone. He has never tried to be the President of the whole country, because he hates most Americans and self-identifies as their enemy.
He only channels his black half. Never mind that it was the white grandparents who raised him to be the twit he is.
You think that museum documents the Arab slave traders?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.