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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
Yes, the Smithsonian Institution is just as bad as President Donald Trump has said, if not worse.
President Trump has taken aim at the leftist propaganda that the Smithsonian passes off as sober, objective history in its museum exhibits, and the establishment media is, of course, in a total uproar. The Daily Kos denounced the alleged “rush to whitewash U.S. history at the Smithsonian museums.” In this instance, “whitewash” means to “remove leftist bias.” Meanwhile, DW says: “Critics warn of historical erasure, while museum-goers and historians emphasize the importance of confronting the past.” See, if we focus on anything but America’s past sins and evils, we’re not “confronting the past.”
“The assault on the Smithsonian,” the Guardian warns darkly, “comes wrapped, as it were, as part of a broader attack on democracy, scenes of which we see playing out every day.” As is so often the case when leftists talk about “democracy,” the word in that sentence means “leftist control of the political system and the public discourse.” Trump is breaking that hegemony, and that’s one key reason why they hate him with such passionate intensity.
Yet once again (surprise, surprise), Trump is right. The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that “the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a Smithsonian Institution center in Washington, D.C., features exhibits that glorify violent radical groups like the Nation of Islam (NOI) and offer historical falsehoods on issues like slavery.”
Nor is the glorification of this race-hate group a small part of the museum: “The NOI features prominently in the museum, with exhibits offering effusive praise to the group with little mention of the organization’s history of violence, anti-White radicalism, and anti-Semitism.”
One museum exhibit is effusive in its praise for the Nation, saying: “For over 40 years, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (1897–1975) led the Nation of Islam, which served as a spiritual sanctuary and self-help organization for millions of African Americans. Its religious, educational, and economic institutions promoted Black unity, pride, and moral discipline and helped its members overcome poverty and other social ills.”
Well, that all sounds terrific, but there is a bit more about the NOI that the Smithsonian isn’t telling its hapless marks. The Nation of Islam is one of the most hateful and racist organizations on the planet today. It was founded in the early 1930s by an obscure figure named Wallace D. Fard (or Farad), an umbrella salesman who has been variously described as an Arab and a Pakistani, and who began preaching in Detroit that Islam, or his own adulterated version of it (which included the claim that Fard was the incarnation of Allah), was the original religion of the black man.
Fard attracted a zealous follower in Elijah Poole, who, renamed Elijah Muhammad, took Fard’s message of racial hate (most memorably summed up in the assertion that “the white man is a devil”) to black communities nationwide, ultimately converting such luminaries as Malcolm Little, who became Malcolm X, and the boxer Cassius Clay, who became Muhammad Ali.
The Nation of Islam teaches that a mad scientist named Mr. Yakub created white people on the island of Madagascar, thereby introducing evil into the world. This is, you may be surprised to learn, scant evidence for this claim, but that’s the basis for the Nation’s race-hate theology.
The Nation is not any recognizable form of Islam that has ever existed in Islamic history, but it does share some of the core elements of Islam, including virulent antisemitism, which may indicate that Nation members hold to other tenets of Islam as well, and are sympathetic to the global jihad. Its current leader, 92-year-old Louis Farrakhan, has called in the past for 10,000 volunteers to stalk and kill white people.
The Smithsonian, however, celebrates the NOI’s violent paramilitary group, the Fruit of Islam, a “model of self-defense.” Yet Fruit of Islam members were involved in the murder of Malcolm X in 1965 after he broke with the Nation. Also, “when Hamaas Abdul Khaalis sent letters denouncing Elijah Muhammad to dozens of NOI mosques in 1973, members of the group slaughtered his entire family at their home in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C.” A model of self-defense. Yeah.
And so Trump is entirely correct: a taxpayer-funded national museum should not be lionizing a group as unsavory and dangerous as the Nation of Islam. The establishment media’s tears over the reform of the Smithsonian only reinforces the fact that this reform is urgently needed.
As long as t heir going to give these violent Maniacs a place in the Smithsonian then everyone needs to quit going there until they remove it all
I’ll never visit any one of those anti-white shit-holes. I wouldn’t visit if they were anti-black either but we both know that sentiment hasn’t existed in America since the early 70s.
Smithsonian leans so far left it falls over itself, I tried to access some online art history and history presentations. The lecturers were so steeped in leftism it was embarrassing to listen to their simpering. They are poorly informed even when expert in a field. They use all the lefty tropes. A lecture of a period of Jewish history included, as expected, persecution of Jews. The presenter’s tone of voice was as flat as if bugs were being exterminated, not human beings. It was deeply creepy. You cannot change lifelong lefty professors and make them have empathy for mass murdered Jews, when they do not or ask them to stop extolling the virtues of Hillary Clinton or stop hating Trump. They will not stop inserting their politics.
I think this institution should be shut down, denied of any taxpayer funds or benefits.
If t heir going to glorify hate Mongers we wont be visiting them at all a legal and peaceful way to show your fed up with their PC nonsense
With respect, may you open your eyes and recognize the Smithsonian museums are all WAY past “PC”. They have rewritten our history, ignoring all that is good about our country.
The best part is the idea that the “religion of the black man” was invented by the creators of the sub-Saharan slave trade.
What a coincidence.
The Smithsonian may be the ones using the term “whitewashed”, but it its they who are “like tombs that have been whitewashed. On the outside they are beautiful, but inside they are full of bones and filth.”
_____Matthew 23:27
Not even the scribes and Pharisees accused their opponents of whitewash.
What do the scribes, the men who copied the Torah, the Old Testament and the Pharisees have to do with anything? The Pharisees were the high priests in the Temple. They never came out of the Temple. They never met with Jesus or Pilot. The New Testament leaves out 3000 years of Jewish history.
I am old enough to remember what a museum was like as a child. To start with it was free and filled to the brim with unbelievable artifacts costumes/settings/ folklore / war memorabilia/ To a child a fascinating adventure filled with wonderment. All gone nothing 90% replaced with Crap that interest a select few no more child entertainment in mind / I one particular item that tell the entire story to my reflection was an ancient redwood sequoia log cutting that was thousands of years old the growth rings where label marking events in time Christ the discovery of America/ civil war WW1 and WW11-/civil war all removed the irradiation of History. Ask yourself why (Especially in SF where promises where never kept) every remodel was a removal of something worthy/when they started charging fees on limited days the promises of great improvements and show, were the start of a new bureaucracy of elitist/ and separatist/ and turned our museum into overpriced tourist-based bastions of money-making shit wholes filled with overpriced food and products. all the wonderment of our youth on a daily outing (on our bicycles) was FREE- the Chinese tea Garden/ the Zoo/ Hall of science. All the promises were nothing but lies and deceitful exploitation. And then look, at what they did to the park. disgraceful abuse of power without any accountability. This is all under the camouflage of BLUE without exception.! Never giving back to the community only agendas. four generation SF- en. But where the last/ this dump does not meet the needs of the new generation. It no longer has a soul.!
Get ‘Woke’, Go Broke, I Hope, You Dope ! Satan’s sheeple want more indoctrination. I swear, we just can’t get away from bullshit !