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| Making This Right-Trump Signs EO to Review Statues ‘Improperly' Removed in Past 5 Years, Restore Truth to American History |
| 2025-03-29 |
| [RedState] President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to restore truth to American history through an overhaul of the Smithsonian. The order, titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," slams the Biden administration for ushering in an era of "corrosive ideology" in recent years and seeks to unfurl "divisive, race-centered" themes plaguing the institution. "Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology," the order reads. "This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive." The directive puts Vice President JD Vance in charge of overseeing efforts to “remove improper ideology” from all areas of the institution. Vance serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents. The President notes that institutions like these - including the institution's museums and research centers - should focus on American achievements. If you're looking for the red meat issue that's almost certain to make liberals pull their hair out, it'd be the section of this new executive order that directs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to review and "restore" any "public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties" that may have been improperly removed in the past five-plus years. A White House fact sheet states that their removal or any subsequent changes made to alter them were designed "to perpetuate a false revision of history or improperly minimize or disparage certain historical figures or events." |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #6 Every statue removed should be replaced by one of Trump, twice its size. |
| Posted by: Glolutch Tingle1702 2025-03-29 23:49 |
| #5 1st, let me say, being the grandchild of Indentured Servants for a Chicopee, Massachusetts Cotton mill family. A mill that used Southern Cotton. SLAVERY IS NEVER RIGHT. But the Confederacy and its flag, to a vast majority (95+%) of Southerners, was and still is, not about Racism. The Stars and Bars, is about fighting the DC Swamp Dictatorial imposed rule on the States since, before 1860 and thereafter. Remember, it was the abuses and taxation of the DC Swamp that were the cause of the Session. A LITTLE ADDED HISTORY Remember, official record show there were over 77,343 Northern Slave Owners in 1860+. Plus, some of the larger slave owners were Northern syndicate operations or Northern Family owned to supply their mills with cotton and the northern population with foods and materials. NOTE: Delaware only ratified the 13th Amendment in 1901. About 45 years AFTER it was introduced and approved. With all that said. When ANY Political Group seeks to retune, adjust or destroy history, what it usually is really seeking, is to hide info about its own misgiving and abuses of power? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-29 08:33 |
| #4 The leadership of the south were the slavers who exploited the tribal affiliation of their citizens. The average soldier fought for his 'team' which at the time was usually their state. Even in the North, most of the formations were state formations. It's a tribalism that is not much different than we witness with March Madness or the fall college football season. Those who actually were killing each other, respectfully saluted each other upon the surrender at Appomattox. Those men had more respect for each other than the cowards over a hundred years later who never had to face the fire. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-29 07:19 |
| #3 “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-03-29 05:09 |
| #2 Interesting that you say that. I, too, have considered buying a Confederate flag just to display it in my house, to thumb my nose at the race-baiters, so-called progressives (spit) and the demoncrat commies. I want them to seethe, and be very, very upset. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2025-03-29 04:49 |
| #1 I was born in the state of Georgia, lived there until I was almost 10, and had grandparents who lived there until I was in my 30s. The love of the Confederacy was still strong. But not "racism"...not that. People celebrated the military prowess of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They told stories of how to fight when out-gunned. But the people I knew never advocated for damage to other races. The last 20 years of attempts at "shame" for anything associated with the south have worked. They have worked so well that I've actively considered buying a souvenir state of Georgia flag that once upon a time included the flag of the Confederacy. I'm beyond fed-up with those who wish to erase American history. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2025-03-29 00:50 |