{"id":114976,"date":"2021-06-27T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114976"},"modified":"2021-06-27T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T15:56:48","slug":"racism-task-force-claims-that-the-national-archives-rotunda-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114976","title":{"rendered":"Racism Task Force claims that the National Archives Rotunda is “racist”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young student calls out the school board for its inconsistency regarding political posters in school. (Branco\/Alpha News MN\/Creators)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The National Archives Rotunda houses the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. According to the National Archive’s own racism task force, this structure is too racist. They claim that historical White Americans are portrayed too positively. They took issue with some of the words used to describe minorities. One of their proposals “to correct this issue” is to stage dances or performance art in the Rotunda. This would start conversations regarding the “mythologization” of the founding era.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Cassie Smedile, executive director of conservative group America Rising, said that the report is “the radical Left’s latest attempt to sow division and rewrite our history.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the rest of the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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