This morning i got a call from a reporter who wanted to know, why would the museum at a time when it was focused on opening the building, why would they even helped organize such a conference . The simple answer is that we are crazy, but at the smithsonian and at this busy him, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decades of research and academic scholarship, there would be no museum of African American history and culture. We know that we are tied to so much of the work that many of you do. So much of the work of the museum has been shaped by the work of many participating in this conference. Amazing rate of scholarship, the museum has been able to position itself as an institution that will help all whom visit to find it rich and theced vision of africanamerican community. Thanks to your work, this will recenter the africanamerican a lensnce and use it as to understand what it means to be africanamerican. So many themes. It was impos
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Take this to the country and run on this and litigate this. We want to defend it so that if and when we win, we can do it. [ applause ] guess what . Guess what . Hillary clinton isnt going to do one of these things. Not going to do a darn thing. Shes against all of these things, these principles we believe in. This is a binary choice. It is either donald trump or Hillary Clinton. If youre not for donald trump and not voting and not showing up, youre helping Hillary Clinton. [ applause ] pretty much that clear. I want to close with this. I mentioned how texans really understand freedom, but i dont think you fully realized until a few years ago. Where my wife is it from, the north side of lake texoma, for decades and decades you could go hill billy catfishing with your own bare hands. Its an exhilarating sport. I encourage it. It wasnt legalized until two years, you can noodle catfish on both sides. Thank you for fully realizing your freedoms. Remember, we have to unify. Remember what th
This is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and thats what i would hope were doing in history. Which is not necessarily creating im not trying to create a new narrative. Im not trying to say if we do that now, well come to another narrative that were all going to agree on. I guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to add other things that they think are silent because were all going to create something that has silences in it. But to have a lot of things that have been silent and not to worry about whether im not running a museum, i can say not worry, not to worry about the things that are going to be upset about that, are in there or included, et cetera. Yeah. [ applause ] my name is Junior Williams from newark, new jersey. The sum that is i think some of us make is that being black was only a protected de
And the ears of alfred e. Newman. [laughter] it is an honor to be here with al smith iv. Obviously, i never knew your greatgrandfather. But from everything senator mccain told me [laughter] the two of them had a great time before prohibition. [laughter] al smith of course i am delighted, but not surprised, by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. I have said all along that when it was properly submitted to the rank and file of our people, they would readily see that it had no place in our constitution. It would be very difficult if not impossible to explain to those who come to this country from the lesson taught to the coming generation, to make it their business to see that no such matter as this is ever again made the subject of federal constitutional laws. A peter sien you have been listening to the 2008 president ial nominees talking at and that years Al Smith Dinner followed by al smith himself you talking about the lifting of prohibition in 1933. Will welcome to the contenders