National Archives Goes After Its Own Rotunda and the Founding Fathers for 'Structural Racism'
By Nick Arama | Jun 27, 2021 11:15 AM ET
The National Archives’ task force on racism issued a report this month that claimed that the Archives Rotunda, which contains the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, among other documents, pictures and statues, is itself an example of “structural racism.”
It also claimed that the Founding Fathers were depicted too positively in the records.
From Fox News:
Additionally, the report categorized the National Archives’ Rotunda as another example of “structural racism” as it “lauds wealthy White men in the nation’s founding while marginalizing BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Color], women, and other communities.”
The task force suggests ways to “reimagine the Rotunda,” including staging “dance or performance art in the space that invites dialogue about the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era.”
The report also called for “trigger warnings” to be put in place with historical content to “forewarn audiences of content that may cause intense physiological and psychological symptoms.”
“Providing an advisory notice to users gives us an opportunity to mitigate harm and contextualize the records,” the report reads. “It creates a space to share with the public our ultimate goals for reparative description, demonstrate our commitment to the process, and address any barriers that we may face in achieving these goals (i.e., the size and scope of the Catalog and the ever-evolving knowledge we gain regarding what is harmful).”
In addition to actual racial slurs, the report had issue with terms like “elderly” and “illegal alien.”
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