Smithsonian Museum Director Interested in Acquiring Trayvon Martin's Hoodie

DCist ^ | July 31, 2013 | Benjamin R. Freed

[kevcol]

Lonnie Bunch, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, told the Post he'd "love" to acquire the sweatshirt for a collection, an idea endorsed by the Rev. Al Sharpton:
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"“It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case. It’s rare that you get one artifact that really becomes the symbol,” Bunch said. “Because it’s such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama.”

Curators, he mused, could “ask the bigger questions” prompted by the case. “Are we in a post-racial age?” Bunch asked, dreaming about how the hoodie might help shape perceptions. Then he answered the question: “This trial says, ‘No.’”

[rktman]

Maybe and example of what happens to a wannabe thug punk when he/she “feels dissed” and decides to play the knock out game with some dude and fails despite being “molded” by his daddy.

[DoughtyOne]

Eeeeexactly...

[TigersEye]

Celebrate the cracka stompin’ thug life!

[BuddaBudd]

I want to see the hole in it

[tanknetter]

It’s going to be darn interesting to see the attendence numbers from the African American museum when it opens. It has PRIME real estate between the American History museum and the Washington Monument.

My guess is that the general public quickly sees it as the National Museum of Black Grievance and decides to spend time in the other museums, making it the lowest attended of the Smithsonian museums located on the National Mall.

[Yaelle]

Disgusting. If I were black I’d be so insulted that ONLY BECAUSE OF OUR SKIN COLOR / RACE, the Smithsonian in utter political correctness patronization would glorify the clothing worn by a vicious thug teen who would beat up a neighborhood watch guy who dared to question him.

I am insulted even though I’m not black.

[MrB]

They’re thinking forward with one of the possible outcomes being that this incident was one of the key factors leading to the “race war of 201X”.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

He calls the unarmed teenager’s death by a bullet that first pierced his hoodie, and then pierced his heart, the first civil rights flash point of the 21st century.

Seeing how blown out of proportion the Trayvon matter is and how the people claiming a civil rights violation are almost always those clinging to completely inaccurate facts, it makes me question the accuracy of the civil rights cases we've been taught as gospel.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Use it to clean the restroom’s
floors.

[Iron Munro]

I wonder if he is also interested in Trayvon’s backpack.
The one that contained the stolen jewelry and burgler tool.

Or is this just a not so sly way doing some creative wealth redistribution by purchasing a worthless rag at an inflated price using taxpayer money.

[JoeProBono]

[Slyfox]

SMITHSONIAN'S "FAMOUS ARTIFACTS"

[Einherjar]

They plan to display it right next to O.J. s gloves.

[MWestMom]

Perhaps they can include the stolen jewelry and laptop found in the thug, Trayvon’s, possession as well as the skittles and watermelon drink that he was taking back to add to the bottle of cough medicine at home.

Perhaps the exhibit can include as well a list of charges that Trayvon would have faced if he had succeeded in beating George Zimmerman senseless or to death.

Because, opposed to the great museums around the world containing treasures and talent, this is what the Smithsonian thinks is culture and treasure here in the United States. Not a DaVinci, not a Matisse, but the trappings of a culture of defeat, self-victimization, and hate.

(Sarcasm on) I'm so proud. (Sarcasm off)

[Iron Munro]

It’s going to be darn interesting to see the attendence numbers from the African American museum when it opens. It has PRIME real estate between the American History museum and the Washington Monument.

Is it located anywhere near the "Museum For Non-Hyphenated Americans"?

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[traditional1]

I’d like that hoodie to wipe my ass with....

[kevcol]

They will sur-charge $30/non-black to tour the museum (will be free for blacks) and all the white guilters and foreigners will gladly pay that because they can then brag to everyone else on how racially enlightened they are. “See my punched ticket?”

[John S Mosby]

No connection to race here, huh? Right.

The “hoodie” is not representative of Trayvon as “depicted, and scripted by the left lib media”.... because he was depicted and scripted as a “profiled” person. This DESPITE the fact that, in the full airing of the facts of the case in a court of law (even with the manipulative State’s case/evidence), profiling was NOT demonstrated at all.

Now, if mr. lonnie bunch wants a hoodie from a truly profiled individual he need only get one from a deceased member of a DC gang (surely not one from the neighborhood he lives in— like maybe Silver Spring, MD or elsewhere outside the Beltway and certainly not inner DC) who are prominent in the “community”.

This is beyond ridiculous quasi-governmental (Smithsonian is supported in great part by massive govt. money) manipulation of the truth, for a false purpose.