The National Museum of American History has abandoned its founding mission of fostering patriotism and replaced it with radical political activism. Museum leadership openly admits to using history as a 'prime tool of social justice' and reframing American history away from celebrating the Founding. Taxpayers fund this institution to over a billion dollars a year and deserve a museum that inspires pride, not one engineered to teach shame.
The White House's attack on the Smithsonian is straight-up censorship dressed up as patriotism. The Smithsonian has delivered nonpartisan, independent scholarship for over 180 years, and Secretary Lonnie Bunch makes clear that mission hasn't changed. Sanitizing slavery, Indigenous genocide and civil rights struggles from American history doesn't make the country stronger — it just makes the truth harder to find.
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