Museum should show American Positives

Atlantic magazine essay:

Trump seemed outraged, in particular, by the Smithsonian’s portrayal of the Black experience in America. He took to Truth Social to complain that the country’s museums “are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE.’ The Smithsonian,” he wrote, “is OUT OF CONTROL.” Then Trump wrote something astonishing, even for him. He asserted that the narrative presented by the Smithsonian is overly focused on “how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.”

The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but I can guess. It is typical Jewish anti-American propaganda.

Trump is right. I am tired of hearing how bad slavery was. African slaves were better off when sold to America. When they were freed, they did not go back to Africa. Most Whites are also descended from slaves.

Slavery was just another economic system. Complaining about it is like complaining about feudalism or indentured servitude.

I found an unpaywalled link, and the story is worse than I thought. It is written by a Black man, and instead of "slaves" it refers to "enslaved people". American plantations did not enslave anyone. The slaves were enslaved in Africa, and imported to the USA as slaves.

The Trump administration is, in both public discourse and public policy, arguably the most racist presidential administration in modern American history. Each week seems to bring a new example of its bigotry.

He gives no example, except telling the Smithsonian to emphasize more positive messages.

In 1860, the 4 million enslaved Black people were worth more than every bank, factory, and railroad combined. Today, although they make up 14 percent of the population, Black people own less than 4 percent of the nation’s wealth.

So Blacks were more valuable as slaves than as free? So abolishing slavery was extremely costly? I am not sure what the point is.

Axios complains:

The MAGA movement's obsession with American identity and Western civilization is shaping federal policy far more than in Trump's first term — fueling a reckoning over who belongs and what history should be remembered.