“Why is it the case that whenever they attack ‘wokeness,’ they attack our story?” @esglaude.bsky.social asks in response to Trump’s complaints that the Smithsonian Institution overemphasizes slavery. “We cannot become passive participants in this destruction,” warns @imaniperry.bsky.social.
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‘An attack on democracy itself’: Trump wants museums to shut up about slavery
Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Donald Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an “an all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on “deeply democratic knowledge” and “therefore an attack on democracy itself.”