Smithsonian on Why Clarence Thomas is Not in New African American Museum: ‘We Cannot Tell Every Story’

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Smithsonian on Why Clarence Thomas is Not in New African American Museum: ‘We Cannot Tell Every Story’
By Penny Starr | October 18, 2016 | 10:16 AM EDT


(CNSNews.com) – The new Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s tagline is “powerful moments in African American history, culture, and community.” However, the museum – with a $540 million price tag funded 50 percent by U.S. taxpayers and with a collection of more than 36,000 artifacts and 100,000 people represented – doesn’t include many prominent blacks, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Edward Brooke, a Republican who became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote in 1966.

After touring the new museum and exploring the website, which contains information on all the exhibitions in it, CNSNews.com asked the Smithsonian why Thomas, Brooke and eight other prominent men and women are not included in the museum.

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[dfwgator]

Translation: Uncle Toms don't count.

[Applewood]

I'll bet they have AL Sharpton and/or Jesse Jackson in there.   

[andy58-in-nh]

Conservative Black Lives Matter.

[LateForLunch]

I was told by someone smarter than me that most of the time when someone says, "I (we) can't", what they really mean is, "I (we) WON'T".

It sort of depends on their perception of the down side of making the statement.

It was said that the two words one never heard spoken in the Duma under Stalin were the words, "I can't", since that phrase was equivalent to a declaration of a desire to stop breathing.

[huldah1776]

They have eugenicist Sanger in there, too, and on the web, but don't mention she was a eugenicist. Smithsonian needs to be cleaned out or dismantled.