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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 05:36 PM Aug 2019

Wanting to close African American Museum on MLK Day

Karu F. Daniels
Today 1:55pm

... The newly appointed Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III offers some revelations about the then soon-to-be president’s visit in his upcoming memoir, A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama and Trump, that may not shock at all—but is disturbing nonetheless.

For starters, Trump requested his visit to be on the nationally observed Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday ...

But dude wanted to have the premises shut down to the public during his personal tour.

“The notion that we could shut out visitors on the first King holiday since the opening of the museum was not something I could accept,” Bunch wrote in his memoir, according to the Washington Post ...

https://www.theroot.com/smithsonian-chief-calls-out-trump-for-wanting-to-close-1837775946

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Wanting to close African American Museum on MLK Day (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2019 OP
Good on Bunch. sheshe2 Aug 2019 #1

sheshe2

(83,751 posts)
1. Good on Bunch.
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 05:46 PM
Aug 2019
“The notion that we could shut out visitors on the first King holiday since the opening of the museum was not something I could accept,” Bunch wrote in his memoir, according to the Washington Post ...


That piece of filth shouldn't be allowed in the door.

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