National Archives' racism task force says own Rotunda example of 'structural racism
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Jmac00
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can we get any more stupid? I guess my home is racist, it was designed by a white guy. Virtually every home in every city and town was designed by a white person. The Empire State Building and the Chrysler building are racist.
You know what is not racist, TRUMP TOWER, LOL
You know what is not racist, TRUMP TOWER, LOL
S&W Fan
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These fucktards make me sick. 
TEOTWAWKI inc.
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Eventually, we will all come to understand that, in fact, everything is racist.
livingston
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National Archives' racism task force says own Rotunda example of 'structural racism
The National Archives' task force on racism claimed in a little-noticed report to the U.S.’s top librarian that the Archives' own Rotunda – which houses the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights – is an example of "structural racism" and that the Founding Fathers and other White, historically impactful Americans are portrayed too positively.
The report was completed in April and released this month but has so far flown under the media radar. The task force claims that structural racism "unequivocally impacts" how National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) employees interact with each other, customers and the historical records themselves.
Additionally, the report categorized the National Archives' Rotunda as another example of "structural racism" as it "lauds wealthy White men in the nation's founding while marginalizing BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Color], women, and other communities."
The task force suggests ways to "reimagine the Rotunda," including staging "dance or performance art in the space that invites dialogue about the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era.
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The National Archives' task force on racism claimed in a little-noticed report to the U.S.’s top librarian that the Archives' own Rotunda – which houses the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights – is an example of "structural racism" and that the Founding Fathers and other White, historically impactful Americans are portrayed too positively.
The report was completed in April and released this month but has so far flown under the media radar. The task force claims that structural racism "unequivocally impacts" how National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) employees interact with each other, customers and the historical records themselves.
Additionally, the report categorized the National Archives' Rotunda as another example of "structural racism" as it "lauds wealthy White men in the nation's founding while marginalizing BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Color], women, and other communities."
The task force suggests ways to "reimagine the Rotunda," including staging "dance or performance art in the space that invites dialogue about the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era.
National Archives' racism task force says own Rotunda example of 'structural racism,' knocks Founding Fathers
The task force also called for 'trigger warnings' to accompany historical content.
livingston
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the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era. ?
kev74
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Deplorable Me
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Can we just give the country back to the British and all us white people go back to Europe?
No, but anyone who is upset at this Country is free to go to a Country that fits their views.
kev74
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No way. Not after all that trouble of stealing it from the injuns.
Well I'm waiting for these fuckers to give up their European (White) clothing, and forego the same (european) education, switch completely to Ebonics, stop eating my fucking food, go get some gazelle while you can why don't you, and please, please get your asses out of those automobiles for heaven's sake, stop flying in planes, etc.!
Stop the bullshit history revisionism of convenience!!! It's astounding and completely amazing how it's ok one way, but not the other. Fuck you! You want your cake, you just better be prepared to eat it too!
I know, I know, that entire statement is ripe with system racism and is indicative of the MAN keeping a particular demographic down!
I wonder when the conversation will ever venture into the fact that Dutch trading ship crews never left the harbor and all the "Slaves" taken from Africa and sold to the slavers were in fact Africans! One black stealing their neighbor and selling them into slavery! When will this be discussed? Guess it's avoided just like all the B vs B crime that never makes the news media! Oh well... Generations and centuries removed, things haven't changed!
Soooooo... Gimme a fucking break!
I'm prejudiced alright, I fucking hate everyone EQUALLY! Maybe though with a slight prejudice towards assholes, lol! But those come in all shapes and sizes, race and affluence need not apply!
Stop the bullshit history revisionism of convenience!!! It's astounding and completely amazing how it's ok one way, but not the other. Fuck you! You want your cake, you just better be prepared to eat it too!
I know, I know, that entire statement is ripe with system racism and is indicative of the MAN keeping a particular demographic down!
I wonder when the conversation will ever venture into the fact that Dutch trading ship crews never left the harbor and all the "Slaves" taken from Africa and sold to the slavers were in fact Africans! One black stealing their neighbor and selling them into slavery! When will this be discussed? Guess it's avoided just like all the B vs B crime that never makes the news media! Oh well... Generations and centuries removed, things haven't changed!
Soooooo... Gimme a fucking break!
I'm prejudiced alright, I fucking hate everyone EQUALLY! Maybe though with a slight prejudice towards assholes, lol! But those come in all shapes and sizes, race and affluence need not apply!
kev74
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Well said!
Catskillkid
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The task force suggests ways to “reimagine the Rotunda,” including staging “dance or performance art in the space that invites dialogue about the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era.”
You already have Hamilton. Get over it.
The report also called for “trigger warnings” to be put in place with historical content to “forewarn audiences of content that may cause intense physiological and psychological symptoms.”
I knew this was coming. Tigger warnings coming soon to the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
“For example, a search of Thomas Jefferson in OurDocuments.gov brings up 24 results. He is described in this sample lesson plan as a ‘visionary’ who took ‘vigorous action’ to strengthen the ‘will of the nation to expand westward,’” the report continues.
“The plan does not mention that his policy of westward expansion forced Native Americans off their ancestral land, encouraged ongoing colonial violence, and laid the groundwork for further atrocities like the Trail of Tears,” it added.
Did you know that many of the Indians on the Trail of Tears were slaveowners who brought their slaves with them (and probably made their slaves carry all their shit during that harrowing journey)? They also were allowed to keep their slaves even after the end of the Civil War.
Additionally, the report calls for “the creation of safe spaces in every NARA facility” and says NARA has “a responsibility to eliminate racist language in archival descriptions and revise the policies and practices that led to it.”
The task force said that “racist language” includes “not only explicitly harmful terms, such as racial slurs, but also information that implies and reinforces damaging stereotypes of BIPOC individuals and communities while valorizing and protecting White people,” the report reads. “Descriptive terminology cannot be divorced from its context.”
The only safe space is your own home. Everything else has the potential to be brutal and ugly, even and especially history. Eliminating the language that was used at the time doesn't change the experience of those who lived them. Furthermore, substituting an admittedly rosy picture of history as it's been taught over the generations for another even more one-sided view that paints every Founding Father as racist and focused only on racism (New Flash: They were far more focused on ideas of governance and liberty, even the slave holding ones. Yes, that can be viewed as problematic but needs to be taken in the greater context of the times) and every historical event as being solely on race, gender, or class makes bogeyman that never existed.
FINAL THOUGHT: Get over, stop white washing (or is it blackwashing now) history. Celebrate the good stuff, have serious conversations about the bad stuff, and recognize that our National Myth is like the American Dream: A fully good thing and noble thing to laud, cherish, and pursue with the recognition that it was and never will be easy to achieve.
You already have Hamilton. Get over it.
The report also called for “trigger warnings” to be put in place with historical content to “forewarn audiences of content that may cause intense physiological and psychological symptoms.”
I knew this was coming. Tigger warnings coming soon to the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
“For example, a search of Thomas Jefferson in OurDocuments.gov brings up 24 results. He is described in this sample lesson plan as a ‘visionary’ who took ‘vigorous action’ to strengthen the ‘will of the nation to expand westward,’” the report continues.
“The plan does not mention that his policy of westward expansion forced Native Americans off their ancestral land, encouraged ongoing colonial violence, and laid the groundwork for further atrocities like the Trail of Tears,” it added.
Did you know that many of the Indians on the Trail of Tears were slaveowners who brought their slaves with them (and probably made their slaves carry all their shit during that harrowing journey)? They also were allowed to keep their slaves even after the end of the Civil War.
Additionally, the report calls for “the creation of safe spaces in every NARA facility” and says NARA has “a responsibility to eliminate racist language in archival descriptions and revise the policies and practices that led to it.”
The task force said that “racist language” includes “not only explicitly harmful terms, such as racial slurs, but also information that implies and reinforces damaging stereotypes of BIPOC individuals and communities while valorizing and protecting White people,” the report reads. “Descriptive terminology cannot be divorced from its context.”
The only safe space is your own home. Everything else has the potential to be brutal and ugly, even and especially history. Eliminating the language that was used at the time doesn't change the experience of those who lived them. Furthermore, substituting an admittedly rosy picture of history as it's been taught over the generations for another even more one-sided view that paints every Founding Father as racist and focused only on racism (New Flash: They were far more focused on ideas of governance and liberty, even the slave holding ones. Yes, that can be viewed as problematic but needs to be taken in the greater context of the times) and every historical event as being solely on race, gender, or class makes bogeyman that never existed.
FINAL THOUGHT: Get over, stop white washing (or is it blackwashing now) history. Celebrate the good stuff, have serious conversations about the bad stuff, and recognize that our National Myth is like the American Dream: A fully good thing and noble thing to laud, cherish, and pursue with the recognition that it was and never will be easy to achieve.