Is David Barton Responsible For Changing The 'Tone' At Smithsonian Museums?
When President Donald Trump announced last week that his administration would be reviewing Smithsonian Institution exhibits because he was upset that "everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been," the development seemed like precisely the sort of thing that would happen if a Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton had been involved in the decision-making process.
And it seems like that is exactly what happened, as Barton reported during an episode of his "The WallBuilders Show" that he recently told administration officials that "the tone" of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of the American Indian must change because they are too anti-white.
"I was in DC last week, working on the 250th [anniversary celebration]," Barton said:
And while there I was meeting with some of the higher officials in the Interior Department, and they're the ones that over all of the national parks, all of the museums. ... I told them that what I thought was the worst museum in the Smithsonian system was the Museum of African American History . . .
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