[PROCON]

.. which features layers of galleries focused on slavery, segregation and the civil rights movement..

Yes, the constant reminder.

But Wait, there's More!

..The Oprah Winfrey Theater, a stunning 350-seat space with echoes of the building’s bronze exterior, appears to be complete.

Of course, LOL.

[Da Coyote]

Feggedabowdit!

[dfwgator]

Will it display the tires that Winnie Mandela used for “necklacing”?

[albie]

Whites will be the tour guides, shackled and barefoot to bring about true social justice!

[Mears]

No thanks-—I’ve had enough of their history to last two lifetimes..

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[Dilbert San Diego]

There is certainly a positive story to be told about black history in our country.

I hope this museum does not deliver propaganda.

[Secret Agent Man]

Will never set foot in that place.

[jch10]

Managed and directed by those without a clue.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And all highly racist.
But that is a “good” racism, right?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If this was an honest museum, a large part of it would be the history of the Democratic Party in defending slavery and then, after the Civil War, reinstituting racial segregation in the form of Jim Crow laws, and terrorizing blacks into submission with the KKK. It should be called the “See how the Democrats have poisoned race relations over 200 years” Museum.

[grobdriver]

Schwarz uber alles!

[C19fan]

I imagine it will be as worthless as the National Museum of the American Indian. I went there once and it was the worst museum I have ever been too.

[2banana]

I wonder if they will discuss the person who become the first slave master in the Americas...

And yes - HE WAS BLACK.

[GemStateConservative]

“...which features layers of galleries focused on slavery, segregation and the civil rights movement”

*******

Complete with trigger warnings for the many snowflakes who will no doubt come to visit.

Considering all the historical revision they’ve been pushing for (e.g removing confederate monuments), I’m surprised these galleries are being included at all.

[Ray76]

Very racist.

[Organic Panic]

They are going to put Thug Brown’s bloody shirt, Trayvon’s hoodie, and Tamir Rice’s gazebo.

I’ll never go there. I would like to see artifacts from slave days but not there. Now it looks like the Smithsonian is just another “bash whitey” entity.

[sphinx]

I don't think ethnic separatism should be enshrined on the Mall, but that bridge was crossed with the American Indian museum. That said, my big objections to the African American museum are siting and, correlatively, style. It has been built on a section of the Mall that had been previously dedicated to open space. It intrudes on the setting for the Washington Monument, which is the centerpiece of the entire Mall. It obstructs sight lines. And its design, like the design of the American Indian museum, clashes with the classical styling of the rest of the Mall. It would be a fine building somewhere else. It is disfiguring on the Mall.

Folks, the Mall is FULL. Repeat, FULL. Yet we keep shoehorning more stuff in there, mainly because lobbying groups crusade about how their constituencies are being disrespected if space is not found for them. At the rate we're going, we'll end up with every inch of the Mall being paved over, with every self-anointed victim group memorialized in clashing designs, each trying to be more dramatic than the next. I sometimes think we should just give up and move the real Smithsonian Museums to Omaha, and turn the Mall into a Plaza of Grievances.

[EDINVA]

Oprah probably donated many millions to get her name on that theater. I wonder if, somewhere in the future when no one knows who Oprah Winfrey was, will someone else donates many more millions to restore the then-obsolete theatre to have it named after him or her? (sort of like sports arenas where one company can go belly up and another comes in to take its name’s place)