Trump’s Smithsonian Restoration
The Left has been wringing its hands this past week after Trump recently ordered a “comprehensive internal review” of several Smithsonian museums to ensure that the 178-year-old institution, captured by the Left, removes its relentless anti-American propaganda and provides some balance in its exhibitions and materials...
The letter cited one of Trump’s executive orders from March, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which bluntly called out the Left’s “revisionist movement… to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light” – especially as manifested at the Smithsonian. That E.O. noted that the museum complex had, “in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology”...
Weiss also notes that in the National Portrait Gallery, nearly every Founding Father’s description includes a statement linking that Founder to slavery...
And yet there’s no mention in either of the American Indian Museums — in NYC or DC — about slavery practiced by Native Americans, both before Europeans’ arrival and afterward. For example, the Cherokee owned slaves. In 1835, 15,000 Cherokee owned 1,592 African slaves; by the Civil War onset, 17,000 Cherokee owned 4,000 African slaves.
The fact that slavery was universal throughout human history, even among the “noble savages” that the identity-politics Left so cherishes, is an inconvenient truth that the Left works assiduously to ignore. A related inconvenient truth, which the Smithsonian works assiduously to obscure, is that it was England and America that were the first to end slavery...
... Jamie Dupree tweeted this question: “If you voted for Trump, did you really vote for him to spend time changing the museum exhibits at the Smithsonian about slavery?”
Yes, yes I did. That (and other initiatives to make America great again) is exactly what I and more than 77 million other patriots voted for: for Trump and his administration to root out the subversive wokeness that is gutting this country...