Speaker 1: Right now, it's time for the Way Black History Fact.
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Speaker 1: do a little something different with our Way Black History Fact.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the state of black history Today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna share a bit from The Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: America's top archivist, puts a rosy spin on US history,
Speaker 1: pruning the thorny parts all right. Plans for new exhibits
Speaker 1: at the National Archives Museum included swapping a photo of
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior marching for civil rights for former
Speaker 1: President Nixon, greeting Elvis to real quick Which of those
Speaker 1: is more monumental? Which is more foundational? Which is more
Speaker 1: significant in terms of the story and the narrative of
Speaker 1: this country.
Speaker 2: I didn't know you. I don't know you actually sound
Speaker 2: like you actually meant this as you asked me. And
Speaker 2: it's everything that we're reading is becoming more and more
Speaker 2: upsetting to me.
Speaker 1: It's silly, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Like, as you said at
Speaker 2: the end of our last segment, how are we here? Well,
Speaker 2: Elvis or Martin Luther King. Yeah, anyway, I'll continue, all right.
Speaker 2: US archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisors at the
Speaker 2: National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum
Speaker 2: on the National Wall, have sought to de emphasize negative
Speaker 2: parts of you as history. She has ordered the removal
Speaker 2: of prominent references to such landmark events as the government's
Speaker 2: displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese Americans
Speaker 2: during World War Two from planned exhibits. Visitors shouldn't feel confronted.
Speaker 1: As senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogun
Speaker 1: and her senior advisors also have raised concerns the planned
Speaker 1: exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might
Speaker 1: anger Republican lawmakers, who share control of the agents budget.
Speaker 1: Chogan's senior aides ordered that a proposed image of civil
Speaker 1: rights leader Martin Luther King Junior be cut from a
Speaker 1: planned Step into History photo booth in the Discovery Center.
Speaker 1: The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos
Speaker 1: of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures. The AIDS also ordered
Speaker 1: the removal of labor Union pioneer Delores Huerta and many
Speaker 1: spotted Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps, from the photo booth. According to current and
Speaker 1: former employees and agency documents, the as proposed sorry the
Speaker 1: AIDS proposed used instead images of former President Richard Nixon
Speaker 1: greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball
Speaker 1: player cal Ripken Jr.
Speaker 2: She was tapped for Let's replace all of the people
Speaker 2: with color with white people and athletes.
Speaker 1: That's what the country.
Speaker 2: Will, specifically white athletes, though even though not Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 1: In the history of this.
Speaker 2: Country, we're black. Replace all the people of color with
Speaker 2: white people so that white people don't feel confronted by
Speaker 2: the country's history.
Speaker 1: How about that, all right? She was tapped for the
Speaker 1: job at a sensitive time for the agency, days before
Speaker 1: federal agents searched former President Donald Trump's Marlado resort in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, spurred by the Archives discovery that Trump
Speaker 1: had taken home classified records. Republicans accused the agency of
Speaker 1: abusing its authority and targeting the former president. Up Lawmakers
Speaker 1: grilled Shogun about her alleged partisan leanings during her confirmation hearings.
Speaker 1: After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation's westward expansion,
Speaker 1: Shogun asked one staffer, why is it so much about Indians?
Speaker 1: According to current and former employees, among the records Shogun
Speaker 1: ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by
Speaker 1: Native American tribes ceding their lands to the US government.
Speaker 1: According to the employees and documents, so that's not a
Speaker 1: normal way black history fact. But now you know a
Speaker 1: little bit of something else about black history. Not going
Speaker 1: to find it there