Thank you. I can't wait to visit the Museum. Another good excuse to go back to DC that I loved since I came 5 years ago ... The President's speech and President Bush's were very moving.
We're not a stain or a pity, or a charity for America, we are America....President Barack Obama (1st African American President of the United States of America) I thought this would be another "something" to make me angry about the "Black Experience", but I have a change of heart after watching this. This is a worthy watch, and more so a worthy share. Please Share because this is the patriotic thing to do.
I will have the upmost respect for this museum if they have Claudette Colvin there. ❤ Rosa did her part but took all the credit. Other than that, amazing ceremony arranged by Quincy Jones. ❤
Today we need to come together as nation and community there are no black no white no brown. All I see is humans beings. I'm so proud of my brothers. Let's make this nation the example to others. We all are equal.
Some things that don't get talked about in our public schools nor hardly mentioned of but let me give you just a little bit of this history that's called soil, America's soil where a black man been learning day&night how to survive on this American soil. When we are born as a black child we are already judged by the color of our skin, not even given a chance to come up and bat but knowing at an early age that it is an invisible battle we must continue to fight for equality and justice on this American soil but still dying at the hands of a white man. This dying invisible thing is fiscally, mentally, emotionally, and abusively motivated by the ones who HATE the color of our skin tones of dark chocolate, light chocolate and just chocolate and which we are satisfying and sweet to the soul like sweet berry juice. So let us not start NOW to give up on each other but let the FIGHT begin with us UNITING with NEW CHAINS that's called hand&hand my brothers and sisters on this American history land which we been part of since the beginning when our feet touched the American soil barefooted not like the whit6man in shoes but with our bare skin, so yes we was the second after the Indians to touch this American soil. Must we FIGHT, I say yes we must FIGHT because we just know how. May GOD our FATHER be with us all through CHRIST JESUS and the GOOD of the HOLY GHOST SPIRIT Amennn
A time when the rope was in ya'll hands at the end was a black man dead on the other end, now in a new day and different time without the rope in ya'll hands but still a black man dying with an invisible rope in ya'll hands hanging black men on the other end
“Hey kids, you weren’t raised to be racist, so here’s a racist museum that’s not racist because they’re black.” “But dad, isn’t recognizing one race over another racist?” “Exactly.”
Nonsense. The Museum of the American Indian and the Asian art museum are also on the Mall. Are they each also one race "over another"? Think before you post.
Patti Labell should be ashamed of herself. How could you use our dedication to our story and how we made strides regardless of being 3rd class citizens (descendants of enslaved Africans) and use THAT song to promote that wicked woman for the white house. How could you? And those who stood and clapped for that shameful display need to think about what that wicked women has done and continues to do (Haiti) to our people. She called our sons "super predators" and laughed about killing a world leader (Libya).
Speak for yourself. Is your son a vicious and violent criminal? When you say "our sons", who exactly are you talking about? The sons of Black people in general? If so, you are being much more broad in your assertion than Hillary Clinton was. HRC was not talking about black people in general, but rather, she was referring to a specific criminal element that was permeating our communities at the time. You need to go back and listen to the WHOLE comment in proper context so you can stop misrepresenting.
Must be a small museum. Not many achievements to celebrate besides Jessy Owens, George Washington Carver, Black Jack Persing, and Sugar Ray Robinson. Why does it need to be about blacks? Why not just put the shit in a regular museum without segregating themselves and saying theyre better than everyone? They want equality but yhey refuse to treat others equally
@@Watkinsstudio A black museum with indian and asian accomplishments...LoL...They completely marginalized those accomplishments by putting them in a black museum. That further proves my statement about not treating others equally. If it were equal then it would be an "American Minority Museum" not simply a black museum
@@Cereal_Killer007 You're comments are illogical, as the Museum of The American Indian does not include Black or Asian accomplishments. The Asian museum doesn't include Black or Indian history, art or artifacts. I know because I've been to all of them and I pay attention.
@@Watkinsstudio exactly my point, they knew that putting someone elses accomplishments in their museum would trivialize them. This also proves my point that black people didnt have enough accomplishments to fill their own museum so they used indians and asians
@@Cereal_Killer007 You have no point. Indians and Asians have the same arrangements. They show their own accomplishments, art and history. Whine on about them too if that bothers you. There's nothing you can to stop any of those museums from separately presenting their material. Your comments are all the more irrelevant since you have not been to the National African American museum. And if you've been to the other two museums do tell what you saw.
Not sure if yoll are hip to this but, the Wayne train with women is getting old now. For real. Can we have one couple with a real mature and loving relationship? Damn
Them singing the national anthem was some bullshit..... They should have sang Lift ever voice and sing. Every time they sing the national anthem at anything represents racism.
Now we need a European-American art museum. Just to be fair. DC already has an African-American art museum, a museum for art specifically from Africa itself, and at least one exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History dedicated to Africa, along with African-American artists represented in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art, even though the latter two are mostly European or European-American.
@@Nonamearisto If you walk around, you will find that almost EVERY other museum IS in fact a European-American museum. This is the historical injustice that they try to even out a tiny little bit with this magnificent building in Chicago
This museum has one major problem -- its architecture is a blight on the mall. If they were going to put something next to the Washington Monument, a very risky move no matter how nice it might be, they needed to achieve an excellence that is rarely met. Even the WWII addition was mistake, and that is quite nicely done. This is a modernist piece of trash and it doesn't matter what the purpose of the building is, it cannot overcome the sheer ugliness of it. From the video here, it is not as apparent, since it just looks like another abysmal post-modernist pile of junk building, but when compared with the beauty of the rest of the Mall, the Washington Monument, the Capitol in the distance, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, yes, even the WWII Memorial, it out of place, and also as if someone were attempting to drag down the overall beauty of the balance and grandeur of its surroundings.
@@Watkinsstudio Some folks will say that architecture, like art, is purely subjective. I am not one of them. I keep waiting for this building and it's squat form, ghastly color, and excessive and garish facade to grow on me, the way the Vietnam War Memorial. It has not. Those who made this decision have no excuse -- it was not rushed, it was left to a competition, they awarded it to an African American firm, in what was likely pure affirmative action (aka "racism"). They blew it. They put the thing in a place where no building should be, it mars the landscape and the empty area around the Washington Monument that gives (or gave) it an unobstructed view from every direction. I lived in DC for many years, and worked close enough to be able to walk, and lunch, on the Mall. The difference is stark. One might be able to get used to a blight, just as one gets used to a scar, and maybe when the trees grow in to hide some of its hideous outer appearance, the effect will be less noticeable, but this is what happens when those who are looking for something "fresh" forget that it also has to be "good".
@@Watkinsstudio In some things. Here it is not. The building reminds of the people who used to say that about public housing when it first went up: "you don't understand art or architecture, it's the newest thing -- brutalist architecture." It was garbage. This building is garbage -- and it has nothing to do with "that's just your opinion". It has to do with the evolution of aesthetics, taste, and good judgement.
