One of the most telling parts of the horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeting #Smithsonian is its defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.
"A new executive order from the #Trump administration focuses on the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture, seeking to take away displays they describe as “flawed” and “divisive.”"
"In this executive order, the white house is looking to change the museum so that it focuses on the positive aspects of American history and replace the current displays which they subjected guests to ‘ideological indoctrination’."
https://www.kktv.com/2025/04/04/giving-people-fairytale-history-colorado-college-professor-reacts-executive-order-focused-popular-national-museum/ #BlackHistory #Smithsonian
Redefining the history of #Slavery in #America, the #DJT admin has put its anti-#DEI thumb on the scales.
Under new #ExecutiveOrder edict to reshape the #Smithsonian #Museum and the #NationalParks, curators of historic sites are ordered to rewrite history of #CivilWar, delete references to #HarrietTubman. Teaching visitors to historic sites about #UndergroundRailroad has been legislatively mandated since 1998, but recent #Drumpf era ommissions have been removing references to that, as well as #JohnBrown from #HarpersFerry and deleting mentions of #AfricanAmericans, the practice of slavery and any "divisive narratives" ...
"On my way to the #exhibit that #Trump says revises #history and makes the country look inaccurately #racist, I saw a painting from 1946 called “Frightful New York,” in which the female painter, #HisakoHibi, expressed how jarring it felt to reach the big city after spending three years forcibly incarcerated in an #internmentcamp along with 120,000 other innocent #JapaneseAmericans under orders from a U.S. president. That painting was made 79 years ago, so don’t tell me that we’re rewriting #racism into history, it has always been there."
#smithsonian #censorship
https://web.archive.org/web/20250406015618/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/02/trump-art-corrosive-smithsonian-executive-order/
God help every single one of you MFs who voted for this blatantly racist, uneducated, and ignorant piece of trash.
#DonaldTrump #JDVance
Trump Calls the #Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History ‘Divisive, Race-centered, Corrosive’ – Threatens Funding:
https://eurweb.com/2025/trump-slams-museum-of-african-american-history-threatens-funding/
Many critics, who almost invariably do not work in the fields of historical study or education, will reflexively scoff at the idea that the Trump regime is attempting to erase, or re-write history in a way that supports a Christian Nationalist worldview as the official truth and indeed the only valid, legal way to speak about history; often while admitting that Trump is functionally illiterate and certainly doesn't read much history. Of course that argument is irrelevant because he's surrounded by a whole bunch of white nationalist freaks who certainly do read and care about history, in so much as it furthers their project to transform America into a permanent fascist dictatorship and white ethnostate; Stephen Miller, who is clearly functioning as the regime's Goebbels, has certainly read a history book or two. Even setting that obvious reality aside however, sometimes Trump's executive orders just come right out and admit this is the plan. Take for example Der Führer's recent order to put noted white nationalist (and Vice President) JD Vance in charge of scrubbing the Smithsonian museum (and zoo) complex of "improper ideology."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-smithsonian-executive-order
'Unabashed Fascism': Trump Executive Order Targets 'Improper Ideology' at Smithsonian
"U.S. President Donald Trump has elicited a fresh wave of anger after he signed an executive order on Thursday targeting exhibits or programs critical of the United States at the Smithsonian Institution, a sprawling network of largely free museums and Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo.
The order aims to prevent federal money from going to displays that "divide Americans based on race" or "promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federal law and policy," as well as remove "improper ideology" from Smithsonian's museums, education centers, and research centers.
"This is unabashed fascism," wrote the journalist Lauren Wolfe on X on Thursday. Amy Rutenberg, a history professor at Iowa State University, wrote: "Last week, while visiting several Smithsonian museums, I kept wondering how long it would take for this administration to direct exhibits to be pulled. Not long, it turns out."
Look, if you think I'm being uncharitable about the purpose of this executive order, you can simply read the order yourself (here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/) because Downmarket Mussolini makes it very clear this is about erasing the history of slavery, structural racism, the existence of trans women, and anything that makes white people uncomfortable about the history of a white supremacist country built on chattel slavery and genocide. Trump even pinned the tail on the donkey by instructing the interior secretary to reinstall statues and monuments removed or changed since January 1st, 2020; and if your memory is failing you, that date is clearly about undoing projects to remove monuments to racists and Confederate slavers, in response to the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests.
Anyone arguing this is about preserving history from ideology (a phrase that makes zero sense because history is affected by the ideologies governing human behavior at the time it happens; obviously) somehow, is literally pushing fascist propaganda; this is about establishing an official narrative in support of a white nationalist permanent social and political order, and slowly eliminating any source of facts that might argue with that narrative. This is ideological policing, and history has shown us that these efforts to rewrite the past and eliminate dissenting narratives typically end in, literal, mass graves.
Shalise Manza Young: Why tRump's Smithsonian executive order is especially painful: The blood spilled by our ancestors for voting rights, fair housing and other freedoms has benefitted non-Black Americans arguably more than they have benefitted us.
#trump #Smithsonian #NMAAHC #uspol #maga #racism #TheContrarian
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/why-trumps-smithsonian-executive?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Director of African American Museum, part of the Smithsonian was placed on indefinate leave by the trump regime. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/kevin-young-african-american-museum-trump-smithsonian
#Museum
#africanamericanhistory
#Smithsonian
« While the #Trump executive order claims the exhibition is an example of how the #Smithsonian has "come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology," visitors and critics see a collection that probes historical representation, stereotypes and identity. »
« The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and Sculpture shows 82 artworks by 70 artists, spanning from the late 1700s to the present .»
This art exhibition is 'divisive' or 'eye-opening' — it depends https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345933/smithsonian-executive-order-the-shape-of-power
William Bache's Silhouettes Album via The National Portrait Gallery [Shared]
William Bache (1771–1845) emigrated from England to Philadelphia in May 1793 with no apparent training as an artist. Yet from 1803 to 1812, he pursued a prolific and successful career as an itinerant maker of silhouette portraits, traveling up and down the eastern seaboard, from Maine to Virginia, and further south to Louisiana and Cuba. Working sporadically over that nine-year period, he produced thousands of shaded profiles with the aid of a patented physiognotrace, a mechanical device used to trace the outline of a person’s face. Cheap and quick to make, silhouettes captured the likenesses of a broad cross-section of society, including those who could afford no other form of portrait.
"Even if you move past the obvious tension between a legacy of advancing liberty and the perpetuation of slavery in the US's founding documents, there are other ironies here. For example, the order slams the Department of the Interior's role in implementing changes that 'inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures' at the same time that the administration's policies have led to the removal of references to transgender individuals and minorities and women.
But buried within the list of issues is a reference to a display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The display, the executive order complains, 'claims that 'sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism' and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.' That wording is denounced as an example of 'divisive, race-centered ideology.' But the Smithsonian's text is entirely accurate."
It's Jazz Appreciation Month! 
I'm kicking off this day with a bit of Lester Young, the featured artist in this year's JAM poster with National Museum of American History. 
Loving the lineup of activities this month:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/projects/smithsonian-jazz/jazz-appreciation-month
#Smithsonian #HistoryMatters #Jazz #CoolSchool
'What is anti-American?' - Museum visitors react to Trump's #Smithsonian order https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cedy0nd8l62o
Given this terrifying shit around the #smithsonian, etc, can we at least allow this to, for once and for all, prove that #museumsAreNotNuetral / #ArchivesAreNotNeutral
At least the fight is out in the open and there’s no way administrators or anyone else can pretend otherwise? Can we at least have that?
Probably want to visit the Smithsonian soon, trump whitewashes history —
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order
Make sure you don't get swept up in a raid and illegally deported, though... trump signs order on Washington DC as Republicans exert control over city.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/us-house-washington-dc-budget
#Smithsonian #disinformation #misinformation #USpol #USpolitics #DC #WashingtonDC
Jetzt gibt #Trump in den USA in seiner #Smithsonian Executive Order die Parole aus, Rasse sei eine “biologische Realität”.
Wirklich bitter, dass es in der letzten Legislaturperiode nicht gelungen ist, das Wort “Rasse” aus dem deutschen Grundgesetz zu streichen bzw. den Passus so umzuformulieren, dass klar wird, Rassismus ist Menschen so zu behandeln, als gäbe es Rassen.
Was nicht der Fall ist, “Rasse” ist ein seit Ewigkeiten widerlegter pseudowissenschaftlicher Unfug.
More rank insanity as the #Smithsonian is under threat by the #trump #vance #Hitler #NaziRegime
Rule by #dictatorship sucks
‘It reminds you of a #fascist state’: #Smithsonian Institution braces for #Trump rewrite of US history - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order "Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex"
