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Obama: African-American museum tells 'story of all of us'
Stamford Advocate ^ | September 24, 2016 | Washington AP

Posted on 09/24/2016 6:05:08 AM PDT by bgill

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. Obama said the museum opening this weekend, following the shootings of black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Charlotte, North Carolina, would allow Americans to "put our current circumstances in a historical context."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: african; duplicate; obama; smithsonian
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To: bgill

I heard Obama is moving into an apartment in it after he leaves the White House.


21 posted on 09/24/2016 6:37:43 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: clintonh8r

Will there be a section regarding....The longest war America has ever fought is the Dirty War, and it is not over. It has lasted more than 30 years so far and claimed more than 25 million victims. It has cost almost as many lives as the Vietnam War.
Yet the American news media do not want to talk about the Dirty
War, which remains between the lines and unreported. In fact, to
even suggest that the war exists is to be discredited and disbelieved. So let’s start suggesting, immediately. No matter how crime figures are massaged by those who want to acknowledge or dispute the existence of a Dirty War, there is nothing ambiguous about what the official statistics portray: for the past 30 years a
large segment of black America has waged a war of violent
retribution against White America. And the problem is getting worse, not better. In the past 20 years, violent crime has increased more than four times faster than the population. Young blacks (under 18) are more violent than previous generations and are 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than young Whites.
According to the latest annual report on murder by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, most interracial murders involve black
assailants and White victims, with blacks murdering whites at 18
times the rate that Whites murder blacks.
These breathtaking disparities began to emerge in the mid-1960’s,
when there was a sharp increase in black crime against Whites, an
upsurge which, not coincidentally, corresponds exactly with the
beginning of the decline of neighborhoods.
Over time, the cumulative effect has been staggering. Justice
Department and FBI statistics indicate that between 1964 and
1994 more than 25 million violent interracial crimes were
committed, overwhelmingly involving black offenders and White
victims, and more than 45,000 people were killed in interracial
murders.
By comparisons 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, and 34,000
were killed in the Korean war.
When nonviolent crimes (burglary, larceny, car theft and personal
theft) are included, the cumulative totals become astounding. The
Bureau of Justice Statistics says 27 million nonviolent crimes were
committed in the US in 1992, and the survey found that 31 per cent
of the robberies involved black offenders and White victims (while
only 2 per cent in the reverse). When all the crime figures are
calculated, it appears that black Americans have committed at
least 170 million crimes against white Americans in the past 30
years. It is the great defining disaster of American life and
American ideals since World War II.
All these are facts, yet by simply writing this story, I will be deemed
a racist. Because certain people prefer to maintain a paternalistic
double-standard in it’s outlook of black America. And THAT is
racist!


22 posted on 09/24/2016 6:38:01 AM PDT by itsLUCKY2B (?Borders, Language, and Culture.?)
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To: bgill

Democrats supported slavery, Jim Crowe laws, and segregation. The KKK was an offshoot of the Democrat party. It’s not a real museum unless all of that is made abundantly clear.

In terms of the recent shootings, they have steadily decreased over the last several decades although Obama has done his best to fan the flames. In fact has got everyone so wound up with his reckless rhetoric that ‘bad guys’ and ‘police officers’ alike are more apt to do stupid things in stressful situations. In addition, more white people are killed by cops than blacks. Blacks commit more crimes as a percentage of their population. These are just convenient facts that get left out.

Finally, Obama has used his presidency to pick at the scab of the unfortunate history of the US (read democrat party) instead of as a suave to further heel it. He’s an ass and the sooner he gets out of office the better off we’ll all be and I’m including blacks when I say ‘all.’


23 posted on 09/24/2016 6:43:38 AM PDT by Mustangman
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To: Delta 21

Haha! Me either. I, nor none of my ancestors, had a thing to do with slavery. In fact, since most of them came over from England, there may have been a couple of indentured servants in there. Have never been able to trace any wealth of any kind through the tree. They all looked poor as dirt.
Obama can kiss my behind.


24 posted on 09/24/2016 6:46:09 AM PDT by sheana
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To: bgill
Obama: African-American museum tells 'story of all of us'

Really!?

I'm descended from a 20th Century European immigrant and American Indian stock. How is that applicable to me?

The exclusionary list is so long, I'll simply ask:

How does their misplaced and visceral Amerophobia apply to ANYONE besides the historic racist democRATs?

Answer: It doesn't. Reject it.

25 posted on 09/24/2016 6:49:15 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: bgill
DETROIT MICHIGAN

INTERACTIVE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM

Experience The Real Accomplishment Of Modern-Day Blacks In America


26 posted on 09/24/2016 6:51:10 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: bgill

His way of putting a burden of guilt on our backs. Apparently guilt is passed down from parent to child.

There’s a guilt gene. This gene is ingenious. It has the ability to jump from a “guilty” party to an innocent person, simply based on the shade of his/her skin. All those whose ancestors came to this country after slavery have been contaminated by the guilt gene, and cannot shake it off.

It is a really amazing gene. It is able to distinguish the fine gradations in skin hue and to avoid those darker than a certain shade.

So if you have Italians, Greeks, Swedes, etc in your background you now find yourself infested with the gene for guilt.


27 posted on 09/24/2016 6:59:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: ealgeone

Obama is thinking of his black Muslim roots which go back to rounding up and selling Africans into the slave market.


28 posted on 09/24/2016 7:05:51 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: bgill

Waste of money. 1000 dollars a square foot! waste wasted away.


29 posted on 09/24/2016 7:08:57 AM PDT by Recompennation
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about the current Dem nominee as well?


30 posted on 09/24/2016 7:23:22 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: bgill

It won’t end with this worthless ginned up museum, filled with white bashing, lies, and false accomplishments. And right on the national mall no less. The black caucus of incompetent low IQ deadbeats will see to it that MLK gets his place on Mt. Rushmore. It won’t end until they have the black race on top of American history. And look for Obama, the worst president in American history, to have his monument too.


31 posted on 09/24/2016 7:25:54 AM PDT by lombardwarrior2
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To: bgill

Obama’s tie is through the slavemaster on his mother’s side and what are the odds his father sold fellow Africans into slavery?


32 posted on 09/24/2016 7:27:25 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: sheana

Some of my ancestors had a handful of slaves who had worked along side them on the family farm for many years and everyone ate the same beans day in and day out. My great grandmother relayed family stories from her grandparents that the best thing about the CW was that they didn’t have to take care of the slaves anymore. It was a relief because they were too much of a burden and had to be cared for like children. Nothing has changed today in that regard.


33 posted on 09/24/2016 7:30:27 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: lombardwarrior2

It’s amazing to think it took the white man to fight and die to free the African slaves and die for their sins.


34 posted on 09/24/2016 7:31:52 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: Ann Archy

It is a very ugly building clashing with the existing architecture. What were they thinking?


35 posted on 09/24/2016 7:37:33 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Stay ignorant, my friends! (if you watch mainstream media, you will!))
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To: sheana

In my previous post, my poor dirt farmer ancestors had a few slaves who had been with them for many years. I have pictures of the family’s small old wooden houses and mud huts built into the side of a hill (can’t think what the mud huts are called). Times were hard back then for most people no matter what their skin color.

Prez NeverWasASlave conveniently forgets that blacks owned slaves. He also neglects to say that Africans sold their cousins and conquered tribes into slavery. No, can’t remind the EBT crowd about that. Too bad records weren’t kept that might show his supposed daddy’s ancestors selling his countrymen onto slave ships.


36 posted on 09/24/2016 7:42:29 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill; All

Not my story.


37 posted on 09/24/2016 8:01:42 AM PDT by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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To: bgill

the muslim racist traitor bendover bathhouse towel-boy keeps up the RACIAL DIFFERENTIATION.... his black chip on his shoulder makes him look foolish... his speeches are ridiculous and his racism shines through... poor mulatto.. son of a whore... raised by commies.... confused and indoctrinated... but slick enough to calim he was a foreign born to get special priviledges to get in to colleges on aid and special status...

had it so tough living in hawaii smoking pot and doing coke and going to columbia and harvard.... oooo poor little barry ... community organizer... except those in the streets said they never saw his priviledged mulattoass out for the cause...

any group that was freed from salvery over 150 years ago HAS ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS FOR CLAIMING SPECIAL PRIVILEDGES AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS...

The current social and economic situation of negores rests soley on negroes who choose to take the lazy way through life... which was provded by LBJ who despised them and said that the dems would own negroes votes (not the actaul word he used) for the next 50 years.... and he was right..

Waves of immigrants have landed here and have worked thier way up the economic and social ladder without special priviledges or government programs. So maybe obozo can address that aspect...

Finally there are so many examples of negroes who have put in the hard work and effort and have succeeded and are belittled by the race mongers calling them names and belittleing them... what are they afraid of.... elimination of the SPECIAL STATUS and FREE SHIZZLE... that’s what...

So obozo is on his way out but insists on fueling the phoney race issues at the behest of Soros who is funding professional rioters and civil unrest and should be criminaly prosecuted... and will be under TRUMP...


38 posted on 09/24/2016 8:01:44 AM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: bgill

http://truthfeed.com/viral-video-black-trump-supporter-slams-obama-for-expecting-him-to-vote-for-hillary-when-hes-failed-the-black-community/25463/

http://truthfeed.com/viral-video-black-trump-supporter-slams-obama-youve-done-more-for-muslims-overseas-than-youve-done-for-the-american-people/25388/


39 posted on 09/24/2016 8:11:21 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

So FUGLY, but it IS brown!! SO UNCLASSY.


40 posted on 09/24/2016 8:17:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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