The War Against African American Cultural History and Art Institutions

Museum of African American History, Boston, MA

This small but respectable institution, Museum of African American History in Boston, has just been notified by the Trump administration that it will no longer receive federal funding, as do most museums in the US.

Two weeks ago, the President Trump announced that his administration has set its eyes on eviscerating the National Museum of African American History Culture, Washington, DC, for what his executive order describes as "divisive narratives that distort our shared history," If all of this is simply anti-DEI and not the barefaced campaign that it is to bankrupt Black and African American history and memory institutions and to erase the contributions of a particular group of people to the making of the United States, then why is this admin not cutting funds from these other "DEI" institutions that primarily conserve histories and cultures of racial/ethnic/cultural groups, including: * American Swedish Historical Museum, PA * Chinese Historical Society of America, CA * French Heritage Museum, IL * German American Heritage Museum, DC * Hispanic Society Museum and Library, NY * Holocaust Museum, NY * Irish American Heritage Museum, NY * National Indo-American Museum, IL * Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, PA * The Museum of Russian Art, MN * Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, PA * ETC? So, when they wield the DEI sledgehammer only against African American institutions, we must see instead a new war against America's original sin. We watch.