African American History Museum
removes 'whiteness' chart
Washington Examiner,
by
Byron York
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/17/2020 10:30:13 AM
The National Museum of African American History & Culture, part of the federal government's Smithsonian Institution system, has removed from its website a chart listing "the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States." The chart listed individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, a belief in progress, a written tradition, politeness, the justice system, respect for authority, delayed gratification and planning for the future, among others, as "aspects and assumptions of whiteness" that have been "internalized" by people of color in the United States.Critics suggested those attributes and qualities, rather than
Reply 1 - Posted by:
wjr 7/17/2020 10:41:57 AM (No. 481360)
If we, the taxpayers, pay for this then the whole operation should be cleaned out. There is no room for racist elements of the Federal Government.
Folks can say what they like but the Feds should be neutral.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/17/2020 10:47:38 AM (No. 481366)
That's really too bad because if believing that "individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, a belief in progress, a written tradition, politeness, the justice system, respect for authority, delayed gratification and planning for the future, ..." represents "whiteness" that's a big problem and we shouldn't hide from it.
If as a melanin challenged person I were to suggest that Blacks do not have those traits I would be blasted for being racist.
Could it possibly be that what has been attributed to racism actually is based on widely differing positions on those values labeled as "whiteness" and not at all about race or color?
Put it back up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mseegal 7/17/2020 11:01:44 AM (No. 481390)
Fortunately, I copied the chart and sent it to everyone I knew plus Cornyn, Cruz and Roy. My question to the Congress Critters: Do you approve of spending our hard-earned tax money to denigrate white people, when these are NOT white values, but American values?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/17/2020 11:04:24 AM (No. 481398)
Good Job, you just removed the better half of Obummer!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/17/2020 11:15:37 AM (No. 481428)
Funny thing is that as I was going through that list, I said to myself, "Gee, if you AREN'T currently following this doctrine what the HELL are you?" Muslim? Cretin? Psycho? Communist?
All the attributes listed are what makes the Western CULTURE the best that ever existed, since time began, and the United States is the greatest nation in history to boot.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 7/17/2020 11:15:45 AM (No. 481430)
Yep, can't have people doing any "hard work" or having a normal family - that's 'acting white'.
So, feel free to keep to your old, dysfunctional inner city thug lifestyles which will guarantee that you will have a miserable, violent, worthless life. Yep, you would hate to follow in the footsteps of someone like Ben Carson and get out of the hellish place and succeed and have a nice life, and contribute in this world.
/s off
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/17/2020 11:16:58 AM (No. 481434)
those are all values we tried to inculcate in our children. And perhaps the most important value listed is 'deferred gratification.'
If a child is taught that as a virtue, it allows the child to grow up, be responsible, achieve goals.
Part of the black subculture operates contrary to deferred gratification.
And when a black child demonstrates those virtues, he or she is likely to be accused of 'acting white.'
Sad.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 7/17/2020 11:38:52 AM (No. 481465)
The chart implies something nobody in the press seems to notice: Blacks by contrast must be lazy, arbitrary, against family ties, against progress, illiterate, rude, criminal, disrespectful, and greedy for immediate gratification. Those are all stereotypes straight out of the 1940s KKK.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JL80863 7/17/2020 12:18:15 PM (No. 481506)
Too late. You can't unring the bell.
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Remember the Bill Cosby show about him, his wife, and their three children? Contrast that show with what is currently being aired on the WE channel.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/17/2020 12:45:51 PM (No. 481535)
#10, I enjoyed that show until one of the daughters got married, had fraternal twins and named them Winnie and Nelson after the murderous Mandelas. Never watched it again and I kept wondering what the script writers were thinking.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
coyote 7/17/2020 1:29:00 PM (No. 481592)
As a white man, I have been charted? I didn't know that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/17/2020 1:43:38 PM (No. 481614)
Abe Lincoln was right about bLACK people.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
fourpmfox 7/17/2020 2:05:46 PM (No. 481646)
I've noticed that we have never been shown a similar list about black values,attitudes,and practices. Why not ???
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 7/17/2020 2:08:31 PM (No. 481649)
But the underlying racist hate and insantiy of the ones who wrote it remains.
The very existence of this museum is a racist insult to all others, and should never have been built, should NEVER be countenanced by voters with government money. Basically a memorial to blacks, and the exclusion and hate of whites.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/17/2020 2:45:50 PM (No. 481693)
Maybe if enough of the inner city youth would read that chart, they would see a simple road map for success. It is not just a white thing to have a work ethic, work ethic applies to everybody. It is unfortunate that the hustlers who took over from MLK after his death have disparaged that work ethic as being a bad thing.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Justcurious 7/17/2020 7:48:21 PM (No. 481902)
Is it just me, or do the BLM types seem to have a problem with those qualities?
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