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
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
Fact he was talking to him every day about your slip the 14th amendment is supposed to mean. That may not have worked out so well rather than convincing. But i think the Supreme Court often does not go with what we might consider the correct interpretation of a particular provision. They have their own way of doing things and that is part of the reason. The other thing to say is that support for the kind of things that they know most interested in, fundamental rights fundamentally in the years following the civil war. Once you got out about ten years after the end of the war, there was much less public sentiment for doing these things because it was hard and people wanted to move onto othe on to other subjn some way that had an impact on the way the Supreme Court viewed these questions and it wasnt until the 1960s that you saw the second reconstruction red by Martin Luther king, kind of the vindication of him other things he was trying to do. Some judges who say they believe in the ori
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