Showing posts with label Jim Moran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Moran. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Next to the White House

Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), is not a fan of the proposed Latino-American museum on the Mall:
“I don’t want a situation,” said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, “where whites go to the original museum, African-Americans go to the African-American museum, Indians go to the Indian museum, Hispanics go to the Latino American museum. That’s not America.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates rejoins: "Much more preferable is a world where we all just go to the white museum."

I should add that I'm not entirely sure why Rep. Moran thinks only Hispanics would or should go to the Latino American museum. I'm interested in other cultures! I like learning about people whose backgrounds differ from my own! Learning about Latino history would probably be really enriching. Maybe Rep. Moran is only interested in learning about white "original" history, but many of us sweep wider in our reach.