Racist Law From 1882 Is Not That Racist, Trump Says
At least according to the Trump administration.Laser-focused on the midterms, the White House recently released a 162-page report on the most critical issue facing voters: woke museum exhibitions. Among its worst transgressions:Museum exhibitions acknowledge that some of the nation’s founders were slaveholders.In a PowerPoint slide in 2022,2 a museum director included an image of a butterfly. The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus.
- ▪At least according to the Trump administration.Laser-focused on the midterms, the White House recently released a 162-page report on the most critical issue facing voters: woke museum exhibitions.
- ▪Among its worst transgressions:Museum exhibitions acknowledge that some of the nation’s founders were slaveholders.In a PowerPoint slide in 2022,2 a museum director included an image of a butterfly.
- ▪The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus.
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ReceiptsRacist Law From 1882 Is Not That Racist, Trump SaysBuried in the White House’s broadside against the Smithsonian is a bizarre—and revealing—claim about the Chinese Exclusion Act.Catherine RampellJul 17, 20261031117Share(Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, National Archives)A RACIST LAW THAT INSPIRED MORE RACIST LAWS and was literally named after its racism is definitely not racist. At least according to the Trump administration.Laser-focused on the midterms, the White House recently released a 162-page report on the most critical issue facing voters: woke museum exhibitions.
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