#‘Whiteness’ exhibit at Smithsonian’s African American History Museum causes stir
“#‘Whiteness’ exhibit at Smithsonian’s African American History Museum causes stir”
July 16, 2020 | 3:44pm | Updated July 16, 2020 | 3:53pm
National Museum of African American History and Culture
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The museum’s online description of the exhibit was tweeted out on Wednesday by Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner.
“The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more,” York tweeted.
In an Examiner opinion piece on Thursday, York pointed out the oddity of so many universally positive attributes being ascribed to “whiteness.”
“Most of the attributes listed seem to be a recipe for success for anyone,” he wrote.
“Certainly millions of black Americans work hard every day, respect individual effort, plan for the future, are polite to others, and so on. It seems odd to attribute that to ‘whiteness,’ as opposed to, say, the everyday values of trying to lead a successful life.
“Yet according to the National Museum of African American History & Culture, ‘whiteness’ it is.”
The original tweet had been retweeted, and liked, more than 22,000 times by Thursday afternoon.
“Not gonna lie, they nailed us in the food section: ‘bland is best,’” Washington Post data reporter and self-described “Born-again Minnesotan” Christopher Ingraham quipped in response.
On Thursday, York noted that the DC museum, one of the most successful in the Smithsonian system, gets $33 million in federal funding and has been supported by “the Lilly Endowment, the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, American Express, Bank of America, 3M, Boeing, Michael Jordan, Kaiser Permanente, the Rockefeller Foundation, Target, UnitedHealth, Walmart, and many more.”
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