The executive order for President Donald Trump entitled “Restore truth and mind to American history”Smithsonian is targetedIt is what he claims, “Be under the influence of an exciting ideology that focuses on sweat.” Critics have retreated, saying that it is an attempt to whiten American history.
It was ordered part of a wave of procedures against cultural organizations, which he claims exceeded the “wake” ideology,From the Kennedy CentertoMuseum and Library Services Institute. America and PBS also in his eyes.
Trump has assigned Vice Vice President JD Vance to lead the effort to “provoke policies”, including ensuring that there is no funding into “exhibitions or programs that land from joint American values, or divide Americans on the basis of race, or enhance programs or ideologies that do not contradict federal law and politics.
Here is a look at the Smithsonian Foundation and what is happening with it.
What is Smithsonian?
With an annual budget exceeding one billion dollars, Smithsonian is “the largest museum, education and research in the world,” according to its website.
He was conceived in the nineteenth century by the British scientist, James Smithson, who inherited his property for the Washington -based institution that helps “increase and spread knowledge.” In 1846, 17 years after the death of Smithson, President James K. Paul is legislation calling for the formation of the institution.
Smithsonian is now running a wide range of cultural centers in Washington and beyond, including the Air and Space Museum, Portrait Gallery, National Zoo and Smithsonian Gardens. About 60 % of its funding from the federal government, but the institution also receives money from “insurance funds or non -federal funds, which include contributions from private sources”, according to its website.
What are Trump’s specific objections?
In his executive order, he claimed that the “National Museum of American History and Culture has announced that” hard work “,” individual “and” nuclear family “are aspects of” White Culture “and criticized an exhibition coming in the American Women’s History Museum, which highlights the achievements of the converting athletes. He also specified an exhibition in the American Art Museum” that enhances the opinion that race is not a biological fact but a social building. “
What did Trump said before about the American -African Museum?
In 2017, Trump visited the National Museum of American -African History and Culture with the Minister of Urban Development and Urban Development Ben Carson, and Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and Elvida King, the daughter of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior.
The museum includes an exhibition that highlights the functional achievements of Karson, and it is a successful nerve surgeon for children who have been long celebrated as a role model for black ambitious doctors.
“I am very proud that we now have a museum that honors millions of American men and women of African descent who have built our national heritage, especially when it comes to faith, culture and unprocessable American spirit,” Trump said after the 2017 tour. “I know that President (Barak) was here to open the museum last fall. I am honored to be the second president to visit this great museum.”
What is the response to Trump’s executive order?
Outside the National Museum of American -African History and Culture on Friday, Trump’s executive order and its potential impact on dismay were met.
Dorothy Wilson, who first visits with her grandchildren, said she is very concerned about what this means for them and others if they cannot learn the truth about the past.
She said, “It is a matter that really hurts me because your history is who you are.”
“The history of the United States, and the history of everyone who came, is everyone’s history. You cannot choose your history,” said Elizabeth Bagano, coming from Hudson Valley in New York State.
“Black history is the history of the United States. The history of women is the history of the United States. The history of this country is ugly and beautiful. Every historical conflict for civil rights has evolved our movement towards a comprehensive and multiple -sided democracy,” said Margaret Huang, President and Executive Director of the Southern Poverty Center.
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