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Video transcript This Smithsonian’s race to the bottom, that’s the focus of tonight’s angle.
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and its first African American leader. In September 2026, Bunch announced his retirement at the end of the year amid ongoing criticism from the Trump administration. Lyndon B. Johnson served as the 36th president of the United States.
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Video transcript This Smithsonian’s race to the bottom, that’s the focus of tonight’s angle. All right, since its founding, the Smithsonian and its National Museum of American History were intended to showcase American greatness. Makes sense. January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stated the mission perfectly. Here for all to see and for all to absorb, will be exhibited the pageant of history of a youthful nation, the victory of freedom and the genius of our country. Here young children see with their own eyes, yes, even to touch with their own hands, the ripe fruit of America’s historical harvest. Unfortunately, as any Angle viewer knows, for years the Smithsonian has been used not to showcase our genius, the genius of our heritage, but instead to spread anti-American propaganda. Our great National Museums have turned into political instruments to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens. So how did this happen? Just as a fish rots from the head, so did the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch announced on September 8th that he would retire at the end of the year. He knew what was coming. He knows that we’re on to him. Now, during his tenure, the Smithsonian has replaced an accurate depiction of America’s story, its heroes and founders, with naked left-wing activism. And their exhibits, at their seminars, and in their teaching materials, their radicalism, their support for illegal aliens, for abolishing ICE, for encouraging race essentialism, and for radical gender ideology. But now we’re learning that under Mr. Bunch, the Smithsonian’s misdeeds went far beyond just anti-American programming. In an EEOC filing, the DOJ has identified more than 30 Smithsonian internships, fellowships, hiring practices, training programs that appear to discriminate on the basis of race in violation of federal law. For example, the Smithsonian’s Latino Curatorial Initiative used dedicated federal funds to place 20 curators and other professionals in positions across the Smithsonian on the basis of their Latino identity, while its related internship selected zero non-Latino interns in all of 2023. In fact, Bunch’s own past statements demonstrate that DEI has been his obsession for years. And now we see institutionalized discrimination across the entire Smithsonian. In 2000, Bunch wrote an article published by the American Alliance of Museums issue of what was called Museum News, arguing that the museum field was awash in whiteness and that museums needed to change the racial composition of their staff, writing that until we change the tint and tone of our workforce, we’re just dancing around the edges of our greatest failure. Wow. But Bunch’s race essentialism dates back even further. These were his comments about why he attended Howard University. I went to Howard in part too because I remember saying this, I was tired of white people. I was just tired of trying to fit in, and tired of the questions, tired of the dating issues. Um and I said, I’ll go to Howard. Later in that interview, he went on to say that he realizes that white people aren’t all bad. Well, well thanks. But he’s the same guy who said the museum field, the whole field was awash in whiteness. So it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that under Bunch, the Smithsonian has institutionalized racial discrimination. And throughout the entire museum ecosystem from boards to professional accreditation. My hope is that boards are just the tip of the iceberg. They’re the people that make determinations that can really short circuit some of the change that you want to do in a museum. I’ve always argued that a museum is only as gifted as its staff, but it can only go as far as its boards allow. Oh, the boards were important. Don’t you love the music? It makes discrimination so much more palatable. Now, as a result of this, in May of 2019, the American Alliance of Museums made Bunch co-chair of its Excellence in DEI task force. It charged him with embedding racial discrimination more deeply into its standards and Excellence programs, including, by the way, accreditation. And in 2022, Bunch’s task force issued its final report stating that diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion must be at the center of how we understand and practice excellence in our institutions. And he also called for moving the profession away from what it called white dominant characteristics of perfection, risk aversion, and conflict avoidance. Yes, Bunch’s task force identified perfection as a supposedly white dominant characteristic. Now, this explains why DOJ and EEOC has identified more than 30 programs and practices that, according to the agencies, appear on their face to violate federal non-discrimination law. Now, at something called the Delaware STEM Equity Conference back in ’22, Smithsonian Director Carol O’Donnell explained how Secretary Bunch drove that DEI mission. Secretary Lonnie Bunch is a lifelong educator who has dedicated his career to diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and belonging. His grand challenge in education is to answer this question: How do we dismantle structural and systemic racism? To ensure equity in education, the following has to be true. The principles of diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and belonging must be integral in the conception, design, and implementation of all of our work. I love how she’s reading. And the acronym keeps getting longer and longer. I’m just sticking with DEI. So they do have DEI on the brain. Throw in accessibility and whatever the B word was. Anyway, woke gobbledygook all of it. It means nothing. It teaches kids nothing except resentment and division. Now, after President Trump issued his executive order disbanding DEI in federal offices, the Smithsonian knew it had to do something. But rather than just stop, it did a sneaky rebrand. For the annual summit of the Smithsonian Science Education Center, they replaced the word diversity with the words leadership and skills. Come on, guys. You’re not fooling anyone here. So Bunch’s departure gives the Smithsonian an opportunity for a new beginning. The question is no longer who will replace him, but what kind of Smithsonian will come next? The Smithsonian should open its records to appropriate scrutiny and make clear what was done, why it was done, and what’s going to change. It’s time to recommit to President Johnson’s vision of a National Museum of American History that showcases the victory of freedom and genius of our country. And that’s the angle.
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