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awaken_D_M_golem:
Plug for that, in general. Official grand opening today.
"The Supreme Court failed."
- John Roberts current Chief Justice of The Supreme Court
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Specific plug, I happen to know a guy involved in the installation of the entryway sculpture, he's in this pic somewhere.
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2016/09/14/african-american-history-museum-director-we-ve-got.html#g13
EDIT --- they changed their #-ing system in the meanwhile, that should be the right one.
Also there's this shot of it, completed : https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture/guided-tour/img/photos/lobby.jpg
PlzBreakMyCampaign:
Lol aDMg, no one's touching this with a stick. I'll bite.
Well that was nice of Bush. So no one's going to ask the obvious question here about how & why we divide history?
awaken_D_M_golem:
Uhh whoops?
They changed the #'s on their partial archiving, so I think I've got the right one now.
My "plug" is for the entryway sculpture. Added new(old) link to the finished version.
Edit --- don't have the link to the John Roberts quote, I'll see if I can find it / find the context.
Edit2 --- Ok it was Robert's speech there for the opening dedication, and I'm not finding a transcript. Reported at https://theundefeated.com/features/smithsonians-new-african-american-museum-shows-the-many-sides-of-black-space/ : " ... And it reminds you of Chief Justice John Roberts telling the crowd the Supreme Court failed when it ruled in the 1857 case of Dred Scott that a black man “had no rights which a white man was bound to respect.” ... "
Solo:
--- Quote from: PlzBreakMyCampaign on August 03, 2017, 06:47:36 PM ---Lol aDMg, no one's touching this with a stick. I'll bite.
Well that was nice of Bush. So no one's going to ask the obvious question here about how & why we divide history?
--- End quote ---
Presumably that whole bit where Americans bought people and tried their best to stamp out their heritage and history, then treated them as second class citizens after a terrible war between the states – The War of Southern Treason, as I like to call it.
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