Smithsonian Institution to close diversity office after Trump exec. order /* targets the NMAAHC

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Last time (and first time) I went to DC we couldn't go to the African American History museum because they were having a mechanical issue and had to be closed all day. Now I'm wondering if we need to hurry up and see it because the new administration seems capable of anything...

Smithsonian Institution Will Close its Diversity Offices​

January 28, 2025

Smithsonian Museum logo is seen in Washington D.C.


Just days after the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. said it would cancel its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the Smithsonian Institution, a consortium that includes 21 national museums, announced its diversity office will also close. According to the New York Times, the Smithsonian will also freeze hiring for all federal positions and employees will have to return to in-person work full-time.

This move follows an executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald J. Trump, which labels the Biden administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.” The Smithsonian, which includes the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is heavily funded by the federal government, is now taking steps to align itself with the new policies, following similar changes at other federally supported cultural institutions, such as the National Gallery of Art. (The federal hiring freeze and return-to-office policy are part of separate executive orders by Trump.)

While the Smithsonian’s diversity office will close, the organization will maintain its focus on visitor accessibility, which it deems essential. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III emphasized in an internal email reviewed by the Washington Post that the closure of the diversity office is only the “first step” in adjusting to the new federal directives. The Smithsonian’s hybrid status, with both private and federal employees, complicated its response, but the institution is moving quickly to comply with the White House’s orders.

Prior to the hiring freeze, the Smithsonian had around 40 job openings that it was advertising across its various museums, including positions at the National Air and Space Museum and the National Zoological Park. Since the pandemic, numerous federal employees had telework arrangements that allowed them to work remotely for a specified number of workdays

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[ReasonableMatic]

Also Tariq Nasheed: Project 2025 ain’t that bad y’all

• Destruction of resources that will affect low income Black families the most
• Laws that will oppress Black ppl across the board
• Erasure of Slavery in the educational curriculum
• Women’s Abortion rights being destroyed left and right
• LGBT rights being destroyed left and right
• No regulation of public health and environment
• Mandatory 10 commandments at school
• Genocide to expand US Imperialism

All in the name of “protecting the nuclear Black family”
“The Black Conservative’s Dream for Black America

”
“White Christian US Conservatism in BlackFace the way

”

Project 2025 is gonna put America back in the Dark Ages and the Black Diaspora on a global level will suffer the most,
as US Imperialism affects us all.

Former white enslavers would be PROUD of nikkas doing all the continued legwork to protect White Supremacy for their white descendants in modern times.

Keep thinking playin around in politics is a game SMH

 

[ReasonableMatic]

This fake ass outrage

“nikkas” can’t even agree that all Black lives across the board are worthy.

All white ppl gotta do is point at Black immigrants and Black LGBT ppl having human rights and nikkas let their bigotry run wild and lose focus on White Supremacy being the core issue behind most systemic problems.

KoonYe: Slavery was a choice!!
He makes good beats, so..

KoonYe: I am a Nazi!!
He makes good sneakers, so..

Boosie: African Americans are the worst “race” in the world!!

He Christian, gets Black ppl killed and hates LGBT. He solid, he a street nikka.

R Kelly: **pisses on an underage girl on cam**
He makes good songs.

Koondace Owens: George Floyd wasn’t killed!!
Let’s get her on the BreakfastClub,
we need diversity in political thought.

Math Hoffa: Kanye was right, slavery was a choice!!
He has good interviews, I’m tuned in.

Trump: **Says the most blatant racist white supremacist dog whistles. Removes essential resources that took decades to acquire. Puts white supremacists at the highest positions of power**
I like my racism out in the open.
He’s entertaining, I fux with Trump #BothSides.


Y’all LOVE to pretend like these examples of Black ppl behaving like children politically ain’t big ass elephants in the room for the world to see.

Our ppl NEED to get TALKED to like children when it comes to politics.

Be in denial if you want, but white ppl see it daily and act accordingly to oppress us.

Project 2025 is right around the corner if we don’t get it together.
Be in denial if you want.

 

[Ironman]

Reverse Flash did this

 

[Elim Garak]

bothsides

 

[King_Kamala61]

Welp...no more black artists being acquired....

 

[mc_brew]

more tangibles..... we really should have voted for trump in 2020, we just didn't know how good he'd be to us.....

 

[RickyDiBiase]

The Pissy Draws Posse will be in here to deflect as usual, then again they probably think Smithsonian is some nerdy anime shyt knowing them illiterate fukk nikkas

 

[get these nets]

Trump signs executive order accusing Smithsonian Institution of spreading 'anti-American ideology'​

March 28, 2025

• Summary
• Order suggests aiming at whatconservatives see as revisionist history
• Order singles out National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Order says Biden administration "pushed a divisive ideology"

March 27 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered that "improper, divisive or anti-American ideology" be removed from the Smithsonian Institution, the vast museum and research complex that is a premier exhibition space for U.S. history and culture.
The Republican president, in an executive order, directed that Vice President JD Vance undertake the action.

The order also directs the Interior Department to restore federal parks, monuments and memorials that have been “removed or changed in the last years to perpetuate a false revision of history.”

The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” is vague about what the president views as anti-American ideology. But it suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the United States that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.

The order singles out the National Museum of African American History and Culture as problematic, claiming that it informs visitors that “hard work,” “individualism” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.”

The order also asserts the American Women’s History Museum plans to celebrate male athletes participating in women’s sports.
The White House did not elaborate on the order, and neither the Smithsonian nor the African-American History museum responded to requests for comment.
The Smithsonian spans 21 museums, most of them in the nation's capital lining the mall from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument, and including the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of American History and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Smithsonian, whose website says it is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex, also encompasses 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

The order is in line with the Trump administration’s efforts to do away with diversity and inclusion programs in government, universities and corporations.
Vance is a member of the Smithsonian's Board of Regents.
According to Trump's order, the Democratic Biden administration “pushed a divisive ideology that reconstrued America’s promotion of liberty as fundamentally flawed, inflecting revered institutions like the Smithsonian and national parks with false narratives.”

Trump earlier this year made himself chairman of the Kennedy Center in Washington, indicating that he wants to leave his mark on U.S. arts and culture as part of his presidency.
Trump has been a strident critic of renaming or removing Confederate statues and monuments. Earlier this year, he restored two U.S. Army bases to their former names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg despite a federal law that prohibits honoring generals who fought for the South during the Civil War. The administration says the names honor different individuals, all former soldiers.

In 2017, Trump defended white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, who protested the city’s decision to remove a statue of the confederate commander Robert E. Lee. At the time, he said there were “very fine people of both sides” of the fight, sparking widespread outrage.

 

[Yinny]

Yup, called it

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Thank god for no more Cancel Culture tho, right?

 

[get these nets]

Smithsonian Museum Director Placed on Leave Amid Pressure Campaign

Poet Kevin Young, director since 2021 of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been placed on leave.

news.artnet.com

04/02/25

 

[Buddy]

Smithsonian Museum Director Placed on Leave Amid Pressure Campaign

Poet Kevin Young, director since 2021 of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been placed on leave.

news.artnet.com

04/02/25

I was ready go in but the article says he's on personal leave, not administrative. Somebody outside probably got an auto reply and maybe sold a "lead"

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]