Amerikan Melanin
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The National Museum of African American History & Culture?
It’s amazing. AMAZING!
It’s the most beautiful building in DC by far. Looks like something out of Wakanda.
You can start the tour on any level but most people choose to start from the bottom and work their way up. The bottom is slavery and the middle passage of course. It’s rough and upsetting but it’s our reality. You travel to the United States and the beginnings of American Chattel slavery. Then into the antebellum version. All the time the country is changing thru wars and expansion. Which we were all involved in. The lower level winds it’s way up to Jim Crow Times and the civil rights struggles. They have an actual segregated train car, photos of lynchings, Klan hoods, Emmit Till coffin, so much darkness. When you walk out of that level they have a huge beautiful cafeteria serving up soul food to lift those spirits back up.
The rest of the museum has 4-5 other levels celebrating our culture and ingenuity and the impacts we’ve had on every single portion of American History and culture. There is no America without black folk, PERIOD.
We were in every single war ever fought, the 1st person to be killed in defense of this country was a black man.
The North May have lost the civil war without help from southern black spies and escaped slaves who ventured back down south leading northern troops.
And let’s not even talk about pop culture. They go in deep on that. The music and film portions are great. Sports was amazing. Ali has his own room.
I strongly suggest you visit and bring the family or a date. It’s free to get in and the food was about 20$ PP including a drink. Bathrooms are spotless and all the workers are smiling and helpful.
My only complaint is they let white people and corporations donate to the museum so Bill Gates for instance has a huge pavilion with his name on it. I hated that. Lebron, Oprah, Jay and a lot of other wealthy blacks donated. Why didn’t they open a fund raising drive for normal black people so we could all take part in it? How dope would it have been to get your name on a plaque at the museum for donating that you could show your kids and grand kids? They could have easily gotten the money if they presented it correctly.
Anyway please go visit.
It’s amazing. AMAZING!
It’s the most beautiful building in DC by far. Looks like something out of Wakanda.
You can start the tour on any level but most people choose to start from the bottom and work their way up. The bottom is slavery and the middle passage of course. It’s rough and upsetting but it’s our reality. You travel to the United States and the beginnings of American Chattel slavery. Then into the antebellum version. All the time the country is changing thru wars and expansion. Which we were all involved in. The lower level winds it’s way up to Jim Crow Times and the civil rights struggles. They have an actual segregated train car, photos of lynchings, Klan hoods, Emmit Till coffin, so much darkness. When you walk out of that level they have a huge beautiful cafeteria serving up soul food to lift those spirits back up.
The rest of the museum has 4-5 other levels celebrating our culture and ingenuity and the impacts we’ve had on every single portion of American History and culture. There is no America without black folk, PERIOD.
We were in every single war ever fought, the 1st person to be killed in defense of this country was a black man.
The North May have lost the civil war without help from southern black spies and escaped slaves who ventured back down south leading northern troops.
And let’s not even talk about pop culture. They go in deep on that. The music and film portions are great. Sports was amazing. Ali has his own room.
I strongly suggest you visit and bring the family or a date. It’s free to get in and the food was about 20$ PP including a drink. Bathrooms are spotless and all the workers are smiling and helpful.
My only complaint is they let white people and corporations donate to the museum so Bill Gates for instance has a huge pavilion with his name on it. I hated that. Lebron, Oprah, Jay and a lot of other wealthy blacks donated. Why didn’t they open a fund raising drive for normal black people so we could all take part in it? How dope would it have been to get your name on a plaque at the museum for donating that you could show your kids and grand kids? They could have easily gotten the money if they presented it correctly.
Anyway please go visit.
