“As all stories are”.
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First lady Michelle Obama was also in attendance. “Together we’ll learn about ourselves as Americans, our sufferings, our delights, and our triumphs”. But it is precisely because of that discomfort that we learn and grow and harness our collective power to make this nation more ideal.
Obama said, “A museum alone will not alleviate poverty in every inner city or every rural hamlet”.
In his almost half-hour-long address, the president alluded to the recent spate of violence against black Americans – and the subsequent demonstrations those incidents have sparked.
“A great nation does not shy away from the truth”, Bush said, referring to the countless lessons that he believes the new museum, through its many artifacts and exhibits, could provide to all Americans.
“Perhaps it can help a white visitor understand the pain and anger of demonstrators in places like Ferguson and Charlotte”, Obama said.
In what may just be a new level of bipartisanship in United States politics, George W Bush was spotted asking Barack Obama for help taking a photograph at a ceremony in Washington DC. That changed after the nation was rocked after including the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager shot in Florida by a neighborhood watch coordinator who was later acquitted of murder charges. It was just yesterday.
“The very fact of this day does not prove that America is ideal, but it does validate the ideas of our founding – that this country born of change, of revolution, of we the people, that this country can get better”.
The museum, the nineteenth and the newest of the Smithsonian Institution, came to be after a years long fight for funding.
The effort to bring the museum to life began decades ago but was finally set in motion in 2003 when Bush signed a bill creating it.
Amidst racial strife over police shootings of African-American men, President Barack Obama has dedicated a sprawling museum devoted to black history, saying it will help to tell the world “a richer and fuller story of who we are”.
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The bronze-coloured museum, designed by British architect David Adjaye, is located on Washington’s National Mall – not far from the White House.
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“African Americans have given so much to our nation, and sacrificed so much for this nation”, Trump told the crowd.
