National Latino Museum Plan Faces Fight

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Source: The New York Times

Seven years after opening its National Museum of the American Indian, and four years before the scheduled unveiling of its museum of African-American history, the Smithsonian Institution is being urged to create another ethnic museum on the National Mall, this one to recognize the history and contributions of Latino Americans.

A federal commission has spent two years asking Latinos what they would want in such a museum, and next month the commission will report its findings to Congress, which would have to approve a new museum.

Though the creation of such an institution has support from members of Congress, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and celebrities like Eva Longoria, building it faces significant obstacles, including budget pressures and a feeling among some in Washington that the Smithsonian should stop spinning off new specialty museums and concentrate on improving the ones it already has.

“I don’t want a situation,” said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, “where whites go to the original museum, African-Americans go to the African-American museum, Indians go to the Indian museum, Hispanics go to the Latino American museum. That’s not America.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/arts/design/proposed-smithsonian-latino-museum-faces-hurdles.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

[Keith Bee]

1. Has Pamela Gellar weighed in on this yet?

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[flor-de-jasmim]

2. Message to Moran:

“I don’t want a situation,” said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, “where whites go to the original museum, African-Americans go to the African-American museum, Indians go to the Indian museum, Hispanics go to the Latino American museum. That’s not America.”

Then teach your children and grandchildren to go to ALL!

[Peace Patriot]

3. Bad timing, with this Scumbag, ES&S/Diebold (s)elected Congress. nt