When newly-elected Rep. Juan Ciscomani first came to Washington late last year to prepare for his swearing-in he took his six kids to the Smithsonian’s new exhibit on Latino history, eager to show them their heritage.
The history was so erroneous, slanted, and fixated on portraying Hispanics as an oppressed minority, that he had to gather his children at the end and do a sort of debriefing to let them know what they just saw was bad history.
Fueled by those kinds of complaints, congressional Republicans are moving to shut down the current exhibit and to halt work on a future National Museum of the American Latino. They included language in the Smithsonian’s funding bill for fiscal year 2024 to carry out those plans. The museum has been in the works for years, with Congress officially establishing it in 2020. A director has been named and the search is now on for a location.
In one display it boils the complex causes of the Mexican-American War down to America’s expansionist territorial ambitions, or as Mr. Ciscomani described it, saying the U.S. “stole” half of Mexico in 1848. The congressman, who was born in Mexico and went to school there until he was 11 years old, said that was bad history.
It is followed by a description of the Latino experience in the U.S. as one of persistent oppression. Not only did that ignore the history of struggle against the Castro regime, but the “exhibit looks like 12-year-olds put it together,” he said. Rep. Norma Torres, California Democrat, said she didn’t trust Republicans to add the money for the museum back in later once things get settled with the Smithsonian.
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