Opening the building, why would the museum even help to organize such a conference . Well, the simple answer is that were crazy. But the real answer is that at the smithsonian, at this museum, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decade of research and academic scholarship as a foundation, there would be no National Museum of African American history and culture. So we know that we are tied so much to the work that so many of you do. So much of the intellectual and interpretive agenda of the museum has been shaped by the work of many who are participating in this conference. Thanks to this amazing array of scholarship, the museum is able to position itself as an discussion that will help all who visit find the rich, complex, and nuanced history of the African American community. But even more importantly, thanks to your work, this museum will recenter the African American experience, and use African American history and culture as a le
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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
Because youre engaging and organizing which is capacity building, which is building peoples ability to have those conversations. And also to figure out how to act together, how to make each other strong instead of feeling isolated. And, you know, it is certainly true that when that legal structure fell down a lot of people sort of thought, well, thats taken care of. And it was only the beginning of a beginning. Well, two words. I mean, one is when clay said struggle, theres struggle in the macro sense and then theres struggle within movements to find a Common Ground that we can stand on together, right . Right. And thats critically important and it involves dealing with all the complexities that jessica just laid out there. Can i Say Something . Yeah. I think we have to remember the young people who are coming up, like through elementary school. Im not talking about teenagers. And the way they perceive not only children of color, but children who are white as well. Especially since we
Tells the San Francisco Police Commission who killed her son. The police chief says her case is unsolved because witnesses wont testify. We believe we know who is responsible for her sons homicide. We need the testimony to make the case. Reporter determined to close the case, brown stands vigil on the ground where her son was killed on the anniversary. I wouldnt wish for any mother to go through Something Like this. Reporter supporters who had children gunned down, say she is standing up on the hardest day of the year. Anniversarys the one day you dont want to be alive. You dont want to feel it. You dont want to remember everything that happened. Reporter brown is hoping her pain will persuade witnesses to come forward. She says he was not the intended target. He was on his way to work when he saw gunman approaching neighborhood friends. My son saw it. He saw the gun. And he hollered out and said run. And everybody ran. And why i say that, even when they came to the funeral, they all s