00:00:01.000It's a placard in the National Museum of American History, the taxpayer funded museum in our nation's capital in the year of America's 250th birthday.
00:00:08.000Here's what it says about Mickey Mouse.0.97
00:00:10.000Quote, Mickey Mouse, with his outsized facial features, white gloves, and trickster temperament, represents vestiges of long standing traditions of blackface minstrelsy.0.98
00:00:20.000Smithsonian is saying that Mickey Mouse is about blackface.0.95
00:00:23.000Like that, of all the things about Mickey Mouse, that's the thing you need to know.0.99
00:00:26.000It's not just Mickey, by the way, who's on the target list.
00:00:29.000The ukulele is a, quote, product of U.S. imperialism.
00:00:33.000Have you ever played a ukulele and thought, my God, the imperialistic capacity of this instrument?
00:00:40.000Wild West shows, quote, turned the subjugation of indigenous people into theater.
00:00:44.000The same museum could not be bothered to schedule a single event for the 4th of July or the 250th anniversary of the country it exists to celebrate.
00:00:51.000Well, this week, the Trump administration released a report calling the place ideologically captured.0.67
00:01:20.000Yesterday, the White House Domestic Policy Council put out a 162 page pamphlet study called Saving America's Story.
00:01:28.000And it pointed out how the Smithsonian offers a view of American history that, quote, no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated.
00:01:40.000That the United States was founded only for some, that it is a sectarian and terrible place.
00:01:46.000In one exhibit, for example, the Pledge of Allegiance is described as a tool to, quote, instill American nationalism through flag ceremonies.
00:01:53.000I mean, I'm confused as to why that would be a bad thing.
00:01:59.000How about the Pledge of Allegiance is a ritual designed to allow children to understand why it is that it is good to be American?
00:02:13.000Says that Benjamin Franklin is both racist and anti immigrant, points out that Alexander Hamilton owns slaves, ignores the fact that both of them were actually quite abolitionist in their time.
00:02:27.000One Smithsonian study about the Broadway musical Hamilton described Hamilton as influential and flawed.
00:02:35.000It did not note that he was a drafter of the Federalist Papers, and also it didn't note that he also helped found the anti slavery New York Manumission Society in 1785.
00:02:49.000The Smithsonian Undersecretary for Museums and Culture, a guy named Kevin Gover, said in 2016 at Brown University that he wanted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day because Christopher Columbus was a slaver and a killer.
00:03:03.000Also, the Smithsonian Undersecretary for Education, a person named Monique Kism, and Museum Director Anthea Hartig, began museum speeches with land acknowledgements.
00:03:12.000And land acknowledgements is the dumb thing where people get up at the beginning of an event and they say, We are now standing on Iroquois land.
00:03:19.000To which the normal response is, okay, so why don't you give it back?0.98
00:03:24.000Acknowledging that you, quote unquote, stole the land from somebody is usually the precursor to giving it back to them.0.98
00:03:30.000Or alternatively, land changes hands over the course of human history.
00:03:34.000And we should stop with this nonsense.
00:03:36.000The Smithsonian Art Museum and Smithsonian Learning Lab created a poster that says, quote, whiteness as a concept is foundational to the history of the United States, actively shaping this country's social, cultural, political, and economic structures.
00:03:50.000And of course, the museum has a We Belong Here exhibit in which we are told that, quote, the struggle for equal opportunity in sports began long before Title IX became law in 1972.
00:04:02.000And it continues today as transgender, non binary, and cisgender female athletes demand equality.
00:04:10.000The feds fund about 62% of the Smithsonian budget, some $1.1 billion in fiscal 2026.
00:04:17.000So the recommendation by the Trump administration was maybe we shouldn't do the America hating routine.
00:04:22.000Mickey Mouse, they say that Mickey Mouse, quote, with his outsized facial features, white gloves and trickster temperament represents, quote, vestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy.0.75
00:04:38.000Maybe the key about Mickey Mouse is that Mickey Mouse was the foundational character in the creation of an entertainment enterprise that spans the globe.
00:04:46.000Literally every child on planet Earth knows who Mickey Mouse is.
00:04:51.000And yet somehow the Smithsonian's key lesson is it must have been racist.
00:04:56.000Yeah, it turns out that all of these career staffers at government institutions like the Smithsonian need to be reexamined in terms of their politics because how you educate the next generation makes an awful lot of difference in terms of how they think about the country.0.96
00:05:11.000And you may think that it's minor or you may think that it's stupid or that it doesn't matter very much.0.85
00:05:18.000Millions of school children this year will go to the Smithsonian.
00:05:21.000And if the place is overwhelmingly oriented toward a vision of America that is left wing, that does have an impact.
00:05:27.000And there have been studies suggesting that one of the best indicators as to whether a child grows up conservative or liberal in the United States is whether they go to a 4th of July parade when they're a kid.
00:05:40.000And if you go to the Smithsonian, you read a bunch of exhibits about how America is racist, transphobic, terrible, that's going to make a difference.
00:05:49.000And no, we should not be spending our taxpayer money on that.0.99
00:05:51.000And again, it is not as though the Smithsonian hasn't done this crap before.0.86
00:05:54.000So if you go all the way back to BLM summer, you remember it?0.98
00:06:04.000And this is for the National Museum of African American History.
00:06:08.000And if you remember that exhibit, I mean, it is just emblematic of what the left thinks about race because the left's view of race is exactly the same as white supremacists, only the sides disagree on which side is bad.
00:06:22.000Again, this was funded by the taxpayer titled Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness and White Culture.
00:06:27.000And those aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture included rugged individualism.0.55
00:06:32.000They said this is about whiteness, rugged individual.
00:06:34.000Like, if you believe that the individual is the primary unit and that independence and autonomy should be highly valued and rewarded, you must be white or be ensconced in whiteness.
00:06:44.000Family structure, because apparently it was like a white thing to have a father and a mother and a couple of kids.0.81
00:06:51.000The emphasis on the scientific method is a white people thing.0.70
00:06:55.000Objective, rational, linear thinking, said this exhibit, was like a whiteness thing.0.86
00:07:02.000The idea that hard work is the key and you ought to work before play.
00:07:05.000And if you didn't meet your goals, you didn't work hard enough.1.00
00:07:07.000That, too, is an aspect of whiteness.0.81
00:07:10.000Religion is an aspect of whiteness, in which Christianity is the norm and anything other than the Judeo Christian tradition is foreign.0.87
00:07:19.000Status, power, and authority that you ought to put value on the ownership of goods, space, or property.0.98
00:07:26.000Time that you follow rigid time schedules.1.00
00:07:47.000But the fact that it was ever a part of an exhibit funded by the taxpayer tells you the kinds of people who are running these museums in the first place.0.92
00:07:56.000Somebody's dream was to run this museum and decide that it was time to tell black people that somehow timeliness was an aspect of whiteness.0.93
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