Some Black Republicans objected when they saw their history being disrespected, and julito77 wishes Latinos in the GOP had been just as forceful in defending the planned National Museum of the American Latino. Instead, he notes, they voted to defund.
But museum supporters worry that halting funding will make it impossible to meet the 2024 deadline to designate a site. The plan was for the museum to open in the 2030s, but Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said during a committee hearing last month that “Defunding the museum now may mean that it may be delayed 10 more years.”In essence, the commitment from Diaz-Balart and Gonzales to play the anti-wokeness game could mean the damage has already been done.
Latinos are complex and have different political beliefs. Nobody is denying that, but a major part of the the Latino experience in the United States is a history of conflict, colonialism, imperialism, racism, oppression, inequality, prejudice, anti-Mexicanism and anti-Blackness. To deny that is as patently dishonest as the claims saying leftism is destroying this country.A museum dedicated to chronicling the U.S. Latino experience should not play it safe. It should not be elite.
address the good and bad about the U.S. Latino experience because it includes things that Republicans view as negative feels a lot like rejecting a history curriculum because it doesn’t say slavery benefited Black people. A historically accurate Latino museum in D.C. must include Latinos who have dissented against the great American experiment.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., deputy chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said he didn’t disagree with some of his Republican colleagues’ concerns about the precursor exhibit, but, he said, “there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of parts to that exhibit.”“And just because we cannot agree, we disagree on one part of it, we’re going to drive a stake through the heart of what could be a major institution for the Latino community?” Espaillat said. “I think that’s flawed and mistaken.
Tired culture war politics have no place in this debate, and if Latino Republicans were actually true to their community, they would know that. Instead of being constantly consistent and active promoters of the effort to make history, Diaz-Balart and Gonzales are no different from fellow conservatives who obsess about an American experience they believe threatens them.
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