Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34807594

Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you “can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress” during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      That’s not so bad: you have to work to get “texture”. The man’s a back artist and he couldn’t have done it without slavery. And he’s so much better off. Do you think anyone could get that kind of texture back in Affrica?

      • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        Jokes aside, here’s one example of what traditional scar tattoos look like.

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        People all across Africa have been practicing scarification for ages. Source.