Smithsonian Selects Finalists for African-American Museum

I predict that after the museum opens in 80% black D.C., you will be able to go in there any day of the week and not find a single black person browsing the exhibits.

Now we can take the rest of the museum and move it into the white smithsonian. We can start with the Wright Bros. plane, the Apollo lunar capsule, and all of Thomas Edison’s inventions.

300,000 sq.ft. for a blak history museum? well I guess when you are allowed to make up your history as you go, you may need the extra space. I wonder where they will display the Apollo 11 capsule?

I remember when they opened up the Smithsonian European American Museam. Oh wait, never mind. That was something I saw after a few too many Bourbons.

>>> Celebrating “the resiliency, optimism and spirituality of the African-American experience.”

And please, let’s not forget to include exhibits celebrsting that well-known tendency of Blacks to turn to criminal behavior, not just in America, but all over the world… wherever they are, INCLUDING in Africa and the formerly White European nations. I mean surely, shouldn’t this magnificent exhibit tell the WHOLE TRUTH?

“speaks about the resiliency, optimism and spirituality of the African-American experience.”

The only good thing I can think of about this museum is at least it isn’t going to be built on the grounds of, or as an addition to, the iconic Smithsonian building itself, although with the way whites are falling over each other to glorify the black race, I’m surprised it isn’t.

I know that in Gary Indiana there have been plans to build an African-American museum for decades, spearheaded by former mayor Richard G. Hatcher, but the money has been, as usual, mishandled (of course, locating the museum in one of the numerous abandoned buildings currently in Gary was never good enough for the esteemed Mr. Hatcher). But couldn’t one think of the entire city of Gary itself as a “museum of African-American culture?” Needless to say, this museum in Washington is going to be built with WPM, that is, White People’s Money.

And as far as the smarmy statement quoted above, I have never known blacks to be particularly optimistic about anything, except that they would “overcome” in the hazy, far off future. Certainly, saying that all their problems are due to white oppression and are largely out of their hands doesn’t sound particularly optimistic to me.

I’m curious about what claims they’re going to make concerning black inventions. They certainly can’t make the outrageous statements such as a black man invented the elevator or the refrigerator. To do so would make the museum an easy target. Not to make such claims will infuriate afro-centric blacks.

It’s going to be like walking the razors edge.

300,000 sq.ft. for a blak history museum? well I guess when you are allowed to make up your history as you go, you may need the extra space. I wonder where they will display the Apollo 11 capsule?

Right beside all of the other marvelous things the blacks have invented!!! don’t you read AR??? J/K

“I predict that after the museum opens in 80% black D.C., you will be able to go in there any day of the week and not find a single black person browsing the exhibits.”

Not true…the DC government schools will bus the kids there, and the place will be filled with black youngsters who will proceed to trash the facility. I my town we have a “science center.” I went there once, but the minority kids there of field trips were so out of control I made a point to never return.

My local library dragged out the Black History displays and books the week after New Year’s. Black history month is not just February. It starte about January 5th and goes on until around March 20th, especially in the schools.

Has anyone seen the Piquot (sp?) Indian museum in Conn.? The life like settings in the museum depict Indians as one would imagine them, mostly caucasian and attractive. Meanwhile!! photos of current Piquot Indians looks more like a welfare line in front of a mobile home, blacks only.

A museum of 350,000 square feet would seem excessive to display the artifacts of black history. I mean, how much room would be needed to display the spear, do-rag, an old jar of Georgia Peach Pomade, a Fifties-era Buick Roadmaster, a grass hut, the boom-box, a roach-clip, and a 64 oz. bottle of Night Train.

I believe that hits most of the high points.

If somebody spray paints gang graffiti inside the African American Museum, how will anyone know it’s not part of the exhibits?

>>>Black history month is not just February. It starte about January 5th and goes on until around March 20th, especially in the schools.

Geez! Maybe the fact Blacks have no REAL HISTORY… has something to do with it. I mean when all your history shows is 45,000 to 50,000 years of racial non-achievement, you have to restort to endlessly re-iterrated fiction to make up the deficit.

Getting down to hard reality… can ANYONE come up with some geniuine Black invention that HAS NOT depended on many years of White research, White generated knowledge. I mean like that fountain pen… hyped up as a Black invention. Never mind that others formulated the understanding of pneumatics, capillary action, invention of rubber-making, plastics, etc., without which the concept of a fountain pen would have been useless. Bottom line is while Europe started its long climb upward, beginning with the Golden Age of Greek thinkers, progressing through feudalism, the Middle Ages, and culminating with the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, Blacks cannot HONESTLY point to anything even remotely similar. But remember, if anyone dares to point that out, cries of “RACIST” fill the air!

Blacks in Africa have had DECADES since the end of Colonialism, yet the Continent still is a mass of crime, corruption, disease, poverty and despair. Wondering if Black History teachers have the moral courage to address THAT issue… WITHOUT trying to pin the blame on Evil Whites!