GOP strips funding from Smithsonian’s Latino museum over ‘quasi-racist’ exhibit
He said he fully supports the project but the only way to get the“We’ll fix it. But the way to do that is to make sure the
Rep. Pete Aguilar, California Democrat, said the exhibit “isn’t perfect” but Republicans should leave the decisions to the experts at theRepublicans responded with a compelling critique of the exhibit. More broadly, he said, the exhibit has a “borderline insulting” obsession with portraying Hispanics as victims of rapacious European and American governments and culture.
Mr. Garcia said the exhibits blame the U.S. for the atrocities of Latin American dictators. He said the displays show it was American intervention that sent people fleeing their homes and rushing north rather than the prosperity and opportunity that the U.S. offered. Mr. Diaz-Balart asked for a show of hands on who had seen the exhibit. Several Republican hands shot up, he said, but he saw just one Democrat raise a hand.
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