Jasmine Crockett, Democrat
Representative from Texas, on GOP attempt to whitewash the National Museum of
American History:
“Welcome to the Republicans'
white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing. It might be
uncomfortable for some people on this committee to hear about the true history
of America, and I hate that for them. But facts are facts. It's a fact that there
is a violent, exclusionary, discriminatory, sexist, and racist part of American
history, where our indigenous populations were forcibly displaced from their
land, where thousands of Black people were unjustly lynched, where Black people
were denied the right to vote, and they still trying to do it today. Women
needed their husbands' permission to open a bank account, where people with
disabilities were routinely excluded from schools, workplaces, and public life,
where four little Black girls were murdered by the KKK at the 16th Street
Baptist Church, and a lot of this wasn't that long ago. In fact, three of
those girls would be 77 and one would be 74. More than 40 members of Congress
serving right now would be older than them. Ruby Bridges, who was the first
Black child to desegregate an all-white school, is only 71 years old. More than
100 members of Congress serving right now are older than her. So, attacks on
the Smithsonian or any other institution that's willing to tell the true
history of America is not only an attempt to rewrite history; it's an attempt
to erase history."
If you forget history, you
are likely to repeat it … Hitler to Cankles.
American history is white and
male and Christian, yes, but it’s also Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and female,
LGBTQ+, young and old, Jewish and Catholic and Protectant and atheist and
agnostic.
And don’t ever fucking forget
that.
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