WEBVTT - Way Black History Fact  - Black History Removed from the National Archives

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, it's time for the Way Black History Fact.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by Major Threads

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<v Speaker 1>do a little something different with our Way Black History Fact.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going to talk about the state of black history Today.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna share a bit from The Wall Street Journal,

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<v Speaker 1>America's top archivist, puts a rosy spin on US history,

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<v Speaker 1>pruning the thorny parts all right. Plans for new exhibits

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<v Speaker 1>at the National Archives Museum included swapping a photo of

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<v Speaker 1>Martin Luther King Junior marching for civil rights for former

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<v Speaker 1>President Nixon, greeting Elvis to real quick Which of those

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<v Speaker 1>is more monumental? Which is more foundational? Which is more

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<v Speaker 1>significant in terms of the story and the narrative of

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<v Speaker 1>this country.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know you. I don't know you actually sound

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<v Speaker 2>like you actually meant this as you asked me. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's everything that we're reading is becoming more and more

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<v Speaker 2>upsetting to me.

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<v Speaker 1>It's silly, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. Like, as you said at

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<v Speaker 2>the end of our last segment, how are we here? Well,

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<v Speaker 2>Elvis or Martin Luther King. Yeah, anyway, I'll continue, all right.

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<v Speaker 2>US archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisors at the

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<v Speaker 2>National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum

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<v Speaker 2>on the National Wall, have sought to de emphasize negative

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<v Speaker 2>parts of you as history. She has ordered the removal

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<v Speaker 2>of prominent references to such landmark events as the government's

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<v Speaker 2>displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese Americans

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<v Speaker 2>during World War Two from planned exhibits. Visitors shouldn't feel confronted.

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<v Speaker 1>As senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogun

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<v Speaker 1>and her senior advisors also have raised concerns the planned

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<v Speaker 1>exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might

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<v Speaker 1>anger Republican lawmakers, who share control of the agents budget.

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<v Speaker 1>Chogan's senior aides ordered that a proposed image of civil

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<v Speaker 1>rights leader Martin Luther King Junior be cut from a

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<v Speaker 1>planned Step into History photo booth in the Discovery Center.

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<v Speaker 1>The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos

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<v Speaker 1>of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures. The AIDS also ordered

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<v Speaker 1>the removal of labor Union pioneer Delores Huerta and many

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<v Speaker 1>spotted Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the

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<v Speaker 1>Marine Corps, from the photo booth. According to current and

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<v Speaker 1>former employees and agency documents, the as proposed sorry the

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<v Speaker 1>AIDS proposed used instead images of former President Richard Nixon

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<v Speaker 1>greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball

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<v Speaker 1>player cal Ripken Jr.

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<v Speaker 2>She was tapped for Let's replace all of the people

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<v Speaker 2>with color with white people and athletes.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what the country.

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<v Speaker 2>Will, specifically white athletes, though even though not Jackie Robinson.

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<v Speaker 1>In the history of this.

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<v Speaker 2>Country, we're black. Replace all the people of color with

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<v Speaker 2>white people so that white people don't feel confronted by

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<v Speaker 2>the country's history.

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<v Speaker 1>How about that, all right? She was tapped for the

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<v Speaker 1>job at a sensitive time for the agency, days before

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<v Speaker 1>federal agents searched former President Donald Trump's Marlado resort in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty two, spurred by the Archives discovery that Trump

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<v Speaker 1>had taken home classified records. Republicans accused the agency of

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<v Speaker 1>abusing its authority and targeting the former president. Up Lawmakers

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<v Speaker 1>grilled Shogun about her alleged partisan leanings during her confirmation hearings.

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<v Speaker 1>After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation's westward expansion,

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<v Speaker 1>Shogun asked one staffer, why is it so much about Indians?

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<v Speaker 1>According to current and former employees, among the records Shogun

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<v Speaker 1>ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by

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<v Speaker 1>Native American tribes ceding their lands to the US government.

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<v Speaker 1>According to the employees and documents, so that's not a

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<v Speaker 1>normal way black history fact. But now you know a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of something else about black history. Not going

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<v Speaker 1>to find it there