Trump aide leading Smithsonian overhaul says museum 'overemphasizes' slavery
The White House official leading Trump’s overhaul of the Smithsonian Institution believes the museum focuses too much on slavery.
The senior White House official leading President Donald Trump’s review of the Smithsonian Institution believes the museum focuses too much on slavery.
Lindsey Halligan appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to defend Trump’s recent attacks on the Smithsonian, which he called “OUT OF CONTROL” for pointing out “how bad Slavery was.”
Note: Slavery in the United States was horrific.
When host John Roberts asked Halligan how museums should educate the public about the country’s “checkered past,” she conceded slavery was “awful and that no one thinks otherwise.”
She then promptly criticized the Smithsonian for what she called “an overemphasis on slavery,” and told Roberts that “there should be more of an overemphasis on how far we’ve come since slavery.”
“Our country is a country of progress, and it's the greatest country in the world. We should be able to take our kids, our students, through the Smithsonian and feel proud when we leave,” Halligan explained.
“There’s a lot of history to our country — both positive and negative — but we need to keep moving forward. We can’t just keep focusing on the negative. All it does is divide us,” she said.
Halligan’s appearance on Fox News comes as Trump ordered a massive review of the Smithsonian’s exhibits ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary.
A 35-year-old newcomer to Washington, Halligan was tasked by Trump to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian after she visited the museums. She told the president that she did not believe the exhibits accurately reflected America’s history.
“[I] talked to the president about it and suggested an executive order, and he gave me his blessing, and here we are,” the attorney told the Washington Post in April.
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(H/T: Acyn):
This museum is not about them or for their comfort, its about us and our history in this country... The nerve of these people.
These people have more nerve than Leo Durocher...I have written at length on other posts on the insanity of saying that "slavery is good."
I'll add one more point on the evil of slavery...it put slave owners in a permanent and paranoid terror of their "property," fearing rebellion to this day.
Owners were thus enslaved themselves. By bigotry, fear, and racism.