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Nevilledog

(54,124 posts)
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:23 AM 7 hrs ago

The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance

https://blackpressusa.com/the-smithsonian-purge-trump-team-removes-artifacts-of-black-resistance/


BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE – Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.

“This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build. Here’s another distraction in his quest for attention. Another failure of his first 100 days,” said North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams, responding to efforts to physically remove the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit from the National Museum of African American History and Culture—affectionately known as the “Blacksonian.”

The exhibit features portions of the original lunch counter and highlights the story of four Black male students from North Carolina A&T who were brutally attacked after sitting at the whites-only counter Feb. 1, 1960. When denied service, the students refused to leave. Their defiance ignited a wave of lunch counter sit-ins across the South and became a major flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement.

Adams added, “We are long past the time when you can erase history—anyone’s history. You can take down exhibits, close buildings, take down websites, ban books, and try to change history, but we are long past that point. We will never forget!”

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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance (Original Post) Nevilledog 7 hrs ago OP
This is disgusting and pathetic. 3catwoman3 7 hrs ago #1
Trump is destroying America's history, culture, society. Irish_Dem 7 hrs ago #2
the more they try to erase history lapfog_1 7 hrs ago #3
+ 1 Botany 5 hrs ago #6
They are so F'ing scared of history. Biophilic 6 hrs ago #4
... Solly Mack 5 hrs ago #5
Oooh... this makes me so mad... *seethe* 0rganism 5 hrs ago #7

Irish_Dem

(68,599 posts)
2. Trump is destroying America's history, culture, society.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:27 AM
7 hrs ago

Wiping out evidence of brave Americans who moved the country forward.

We are de-evolving.

Botany

(73,927 posts)
6. + 1
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 01:39 PM
5 hrs ago

Both North and South were built on slavery, genocide, and in a lot of cases cruel forms
of Christianity such as the Pope giving his O.K. to the slave trade because God was good
with it because they really were not as human as White Europeans. Real History.

Racist, sexist, anti science, anti history and anti LGBT dirt bag mother fuckers.

Btw when was the last time a trans person bothered one of these mouth breathing
shits?

Biophilic

(5,548 posts)
4. They are so F'ing scared of history.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 01:00 PM
6 hrs ago

I thought they were the best of the best. The new white leaders set to begin some new masculine regime. And, yet, they are terrified of history. They are terrified of any evidence that the other side might be strong. What a classic example of how poorly they see themselves, unable to compete.

0rganism

(25,011 posts)
7. Oooh... this makes me so mad... *seethe*
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 01:47 PM
5 hrs ago

I swear they do this shit just to get attention for being disgusting and repulsive, like that 8-year-old in a restaurant who runs around tables showing off his mouthful of half-chewed food while his parents look on bemusedly.

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