Letter: We can't let the whitewashing of history continue

White washing history has taken another turn, deeper and darker than before. A President Donald Trump executive order has Vice President JD Vance overseeing the removal of any exhibits that are influenced by a “divisive, race centered ideology.” He wants to defund and shutter NPR and PBS for much the same reason.

Not one elected person has said this is wrong. We should not let this happen. The museums that show the reality of our past — the good, bad, honorable and dishonorable is the US history — are manifestly important.



Thanks to the people who saved and later donated materials from the 1921 Race Massacre, we know what happened. Is history painful? Sometimes. It is also beautiful and exciting and shows how we have evolved, grown into a caring nation.

White washing our history will not happen because we will not let it happen. We know our fuller history and will continue to tell it. People are also reading.

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