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The nation\u2019s largest group of scholars says a taxpayer-funded family museum must include an exhibit that features a sadomasochistic crotch harness, pages from a 6-year-old girl\u2019s diary that depict her yearning to grow a penis, video clips of drag queens and a magazine promoting female masturbation.<\/p>\n

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The Organization of American Historians also supports exhibits that describe \u201cMickey Mouse as a vestige of long-standing traditions of blackface minstrelsy,\u201d the ukulele as \u201ca product of U.S. imperialism\u201d and Wild West shows as turning the \u201csubjugation of Indigenous people into theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those are just a few of the displays at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History in Washington, and they are depicted in the White House\u2019s report \u201cSaving America\u2019s Story,\u201d released on July Fourth. Naturally, a group of elitist liberal historians is rejecting the White House\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n

The Organization of American Historians blasted the Trump administration for presenting a partisan ideological attack on the Smithsonian. In a statement, it accused the White House of ignoring decades of scholarship and trying to \u201cerase the conflict, struggle and diversity \u2014 the complexity \u2014 that have always defined the American experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet that was not the goal of the 162-page report, which was produced by the White House Domestic Policy Council. It argues that the Smithsonian is largely critical of American history and \u201cno longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History has reframed America\u2019s founding as evil and depicted the worst parts of our nation\u2019s Founders. Christopher Columbus was described as a \u201cmurderer,\u201d \u201cslaver\u201d and \u201cthief.\u201d In the Benjamin Franklin exhibit, 20% of the space was devoted to \u201cEnslaved People\u201d and questioned whether Franklin conducted electric shock experiments on slaves, with zero evidence.<\/p>\n

According to the Smithsonian, Christian pilgrims were \u201cColonizers,\u201d and Thanksgiving should really be treated as a \u201cNational Day of Mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is worthy of promotion and praise at the American History Museum? Angela Davis, who was accused of aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder in connection with an armed courthouse hostage-taking attempt in Marin County that left four people \u2014 including the judge \u2014 dead.<\/p>\n

Ms. Davis was charged with aggravated kidnapping, first-degree murder and conspiracy and went into hiding, placing her on the FBI\u2019s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1970. She is a self-avowed Marxist who ran as vice president on the Communist Party ticket in 1980 and 1984. She called for abolishing police and jails, setting the stage for today\u2019s Democratic Socialists of America, the home of the likes of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

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Illegal aliens are also portrayed as heroes within the Smithsonian. The report details how the museum\u2019s Center for Restorative History partnered with and interviewed deported illegal aliens and \u201cdesigned official materials that included signs advocating for the abolition of the \u2019287g\u2019 program, which allows local law enforcement to partner with federal law enforcement to identify and deport criminal illegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Smithsonian\u2019s featured exhibits largely reflect the viewpoints of its woke leadership.<\/p>\n

Its current director, Anthea Hartig, has explained that her job is to \u201cdismantle\u201d the \u201cnarrative lockdown that many of us have inherited,\u201d and has defined \u201cHistory as a practice \u2026 is for me a prime tool of social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within a week of George Floyd\u2019s death in 2020, the National Museum of American History posted on its website: \u201cThe nation was founded on the great paradox of a dynamic form of republican democracy based on the supremacy of white, landed men and the institution of chattel slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardly unifying. Or inspiring. Or central to its mission: to commemorate our heritage of freedom and tell the story of American national progress.<\/p>\n

It is hardly surprising that the Organization of American Historians is siding with Ms. Hartig\u2019s version of history. She is one of their progressive peers who believe that America is inherently a flawed country founded by White colonizers. They are offended that the Trump administration has noticed their hostile takeover of the history museum and that it has documented all its progressive propaganda.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is right to point it out and demand more unifying exhibits that highlight American greatness \u2014 not ones that are solely from one end of the ideological spectrum. The federal government funds 62% of the Smithsonian\u2019s budget, and the Smithsonian Board of Regents includes members of Congress, the vice president of the United States, the chief justice of the Supreme Court and nine citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is that there\u2019s no national story at the National Museum of American History,\u201d White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley told Fox News. \u201cThat\u2019s what has happened under the ideology that reigned supreme over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kudos to the Trump administration for exposing it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kelly Sadler is the commentary editor at the Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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