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The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in 2016. It was the sixth-most visited Smithsonian museum last year, behind only such decades-long mainstays as Air and Space, Natural History, American History — and ranking even higher than the National Zoo.
The National Museum of the American Indian also attracted 1.1 million visitors last year, after opening in 2004.
Yet there is no similar Latino museum, despite more Americans claiming Hispanic or Latinx affiliation than those other two groups combined. Hispanics and Latinos currently comprise 18.1% of the population, compared to 13.4% for African-Americans and 1.3% for Native Americans or American Indians.
They are only interested in this because the African American museum recently opened. This happens every time there is a documentary/film/memorial about black people - "Latinos" complain "why are always talking about the blacks", and protest to pencil themselves into the story. And as usual, they bolster statistics to imply that they are more relevant than other minority groups and should get the same funding and attention.
Now they want to politically force the creation of a Museum:
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The National Museum of the American Latino Act would create a Washington, D.C. museum once and for all.
A site would have to be selected within two years of the bill’s passage, although it would be several years after that before a museum could actually be fully planned, constructed, staffed, and opened to the public.
The bill would cost $20 million in fiscal year 2020, and then “such sums as are necessary for each fiscal year thereafter” — which could be anything.
It was introduced in the House on April 30 as bill number H.R. 2420, by Rep. José Serrano (D-NY15). It was introduced in the Senate the next day on May 1 as bill number S. 1267, by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
If such a museum were created, it would doubtless be filled with ridiculous revisionism that re-writes american history pretending that Spanish people were minorities.
Dividing the country along these cleavages — an official policy that began only in the late 1970s and quickly migrated to the academy, the labor market and the culture — has contributed to a degree of social fragmentation that is only now becoming apparent.
Exactly. In 1970, America was 0% "hispanic". The following decade they invented a new demographic by making up an arbitrary ethnic definition.
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There are small museums here and there for German Americans, Italian Americans and Jewish Americans, which is fine. There could be a repository for the definitive story of Cuban Americans, most of whom are here as a result of the traumatic dislocation caused by the Cuban Revolution; for Mexican Americans, whose incredible cultural imprint in the Southwest is at least as important as that of Vance’s Scots-Irish in Appalachia; for Puerto Ricans, etc.
But, please, no Smithsonian museum for an ethnicity created by 1970s federal bureaucrats.
The notion that Spanish-Speakers are minorities is 40 years old, why should their be a museum for that?
They should be happy that there are any museums for Latino/Hispanics at all. Of note, there is a wealth of local and smaller museums about Latinos. Cultural centers, historical societies, and historical preservation centers do fall under the spectrum of a "museum").
So is this political correctness endless? We already have the American History museum, then the blacks wanted a separate museum then the Native Americans and now the Hispanics too. I'm sure Mexico has plenty of good museums devoted to the Hispanic people. Perhaps Miami too given that that city is part of Latin America.
They are only interested in this because the African American museum recently opened. This happens every time there is a documentary/film/memorial about black people - "Latinos" complain "why are always talking about the blacks", and protest to pencil themselves into the story. And as usual, they bolster statistics to imply that they are more relevant than other minority groups and should get the same funding and attention.
Now they want to politically force the creation of a Museum:
If such a museum were created, it would doubtless be filled with ridiculous revisionism that re-writes american history pretending that Spanish people were minorities.
Personally, I think people of German-Speaking origin deserve a national musuem. Why are they being ignored? If we added "Germanic" to the census, they would be a much larger ethnic minority group than "hispanics".
All museums should be private,privately funded and the govt run museums sold off.
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