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To: darkwing104

Supposedly this racist POS director wants it for the ghetto wing or Afro American wing of the Smithsonian so most probably it will end up at the section where whites have no intention of looking at.


20 posted on 07/31/2013 7:48:56 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: max americana
Supposedly this racist POS director wants it for the ghetto wing or Afro American wing of the Smithsonian so most probably it will end up at the section where whites have no intention of looking at.

For those that may not have visited:

The African American History Museum (part of the Smithsonian complex) was not built on the National Mall with the majority of Smithsonian museums. It was built in Anacostia, which most regard as "not the best neighborhood."

Because it was inconvenient for most tourists to visit, and also because it was in a somewhat dangerous neighborhood, I don't think they attracted many visitors.

I won't argue whether we need an African American Museum (or an American Indian museum, for that matter), but it smacked of unintended racism to build the museum there. I'm sure they meant for it to be an uplifting investment in the community, but it was not a place a typical middle-class visitor to Washington would venture.

Now they've changed the name to a community museum, or something of that nature, and they're building a new one on the Mall.

Off-topic: I hope it's more successful than the Museum of the American Indian (I think that's the name), which is probably the most boring of the Mall museums, at least for the typical tourist. I believe that one is more scholarly in nature. The times I was there, you could sense the impatience of people to go see the moon rock or the Hope Diamond or the Star Spangled Banner... the more exciting exhibits.

59 posted on 08/01/2013 7:10:03 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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