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12. Yes, amazing that it took so long for us to build such a national museum.

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #9)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 03:04 AM

Aug 2016

I remember being in DC in 2001 and I hit all the museums on the National Mall. The Holocaust Museum affected me the most. I'll never forget the pile of shoes--an actual pile of shoes found in one of the death camps, accumulated as people were stripped of them as they entered the ovens. Such evil.

And then it dawned on me that we had no museum on the Mall documenting the evil that African Americans were subjected to. Finally, in 2016, we will have one. And I am sure it will be a gut punch even more than the Holocaust Museum...this was evil Americans did, not some European power an ocean away.

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I burst into tears in a museum today: Never stood next to a KKK hood and gown before. [View all] lindysalsagal Aug 2016 OP

First time I saw one was in college TlalocW Aug 2016 #1

Definitely take tissue if you ever go to the Smithsonian African American Museum in DC. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #2

Should I ever go to DC I will awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #9

Yes, amazing that it took so long for us to build such a national museum. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #12

I learned about the Holocaust from a survivor awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #13

An ocean away, or decades ago, the punch should be the same. Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #14

I am not being "dismissive" of evils committed by others. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #15

I was responding to your remark. Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #16

Wow. I can't imagine anyone saying that to you. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #17

I apprecaite it. Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #18

I can empathize. I saw a Klan rally as a kid from a distance from my grandparent porch Hoyt Aug 2016 #3

Wow. Your grandmother was incredibly brave. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #5

My family moved to Alabama in 76 awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #10

Sorry for the tears, but you are stronger now than ever before. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #4

I have. Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #6

Wow. nt awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #11

my one and only time cvoogt Aug 2016 #7

Unless it is October 31st, any activity that 3catwoman3 Aug 2016 #8

So hard to believe that a 2016 presidential candidate is willing to dredge this up just to win lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #19

The republican party now owns this Abouttime Aug 2016 #20

and even sadder, they're proud of it. No remorse or guilt about their bigotry. lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #21