00:00The Smithsonian's race to the bottom, that's the focus of tonight's Angle.
00:05All right, since its founding, the Smithsonian and its National Museum of American History were intended to showcase American greatness.
00:12Makes sense. January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stated the mission perfectly.
00:18Here, for all to see and for all to absorb, will be exhibited the pageant of history of a youthful
00:30nation, the victory of the freedom and the genius of our country.
00:35Here, young children see with their own eyes, yes, even to touch with their own hands, the ripe fruit of
00:47America's historical harvest.
00:50Unfortunately, as any Angle viewer knows, for years, the Smithsonian has been used not to showcase our genius, the genius
00:58of our heritage, but instead to spread anti-American propaganda.
01:01Our great national museums have turned into political instruments to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.
01:09So how did this happen? Just as a fish rots from the head, so did the Smithsonian.
01:15Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch announced on September 8th that he would retire at the end of the year.
01:21He knew what was coming. He knows that we're on to him.
01:24Now, during his tenure, the Smithsonian has replaced an accurate depiction of America's story, its heroes and founders, with naked
01:32left-wing activism.
01:34In their exhibits, at their seminars, and in their teaching materials, their radicalism, their support for illegal aliens, for abolishing
01:42ICE, for encouraging race essentialism, and for radical gender ideology.
01:47But now we're learning that under Mr. Bunch, the Smithsonian's misdeeds went far beyond just anti-American programming.
01:55In an EEOC filing, the DOJ has identified more than 30 Smithsonian internships, fellowships, hiring practices, training programs that appear
02:06to discriminate on the basis of race in violation of federal law.
02:11For example, the Smithsonian's Latino curatorial initiative used dedicated federal funds to place 20 curators and other professionals in positions
02:21across the Smithsonian on the basis of their Latino identity,
02:26while its related internship selected zero non-Latino interns in all of 2023.
02:33In fact, Bunch's own past statements demonstrate that DEI has been his obsession for years, and now we see institutionalized
02:43discrimination across the entire Smithsonian.
02:47In 2000, Bunch wrote an article published by the American Alliance of Museums issue of what was called Museum News,
02:54arguing that the museum field was awash in whiteness, and that museums needed to change the racial composition of their
03:02staff,
03:02writing that until we change the tint and tone of our workforce, we're just dancing around the edges of our
03:09greatest failure.
03:11Wow.
03:12But Bunch's race essentialism dates back even further.
03:16These were his comments about why he attended Howard University.
03:20I went to Howard in part, too, because I remember saying this.
03:23I was tired of white people.
03:24I was just tired of trying to fit in, tired of the questions, tired of the dating issues.
03:33And I said, I'll go to Howard.
03:36Later in that interview, he went on to say that, look, he realizes that white people aren't all bad.
03:42Well, thanks.
03:43Thanks.
03:43But he's the same guy who said the museum again, the whole field was awash in whiteness.
03:49So it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that under Bunch, the Smithsonian has institutionalized racial discrimination
03:56and throughout the entire museum ecosystem, from boards to professional accreditation.
04:02My hope is that boards are just the tip of the iceberg.
04:05They're the people that make determinations that can really short circuit some of the change that you want to do
04:12in a museum.
04:13I've always argued that a museum is only as gifted as its staff, but it can only go as far
04:19as its boards allow.
04:21Oh, the boards were important.
04:23Don't you love the music?
04:24It makes discrimination so much more palatable.
04:26Now, as a result of this, in May of 2019, the American Alliance of Museums made Bunch co-chair of
04:34its Excellence in DEAI Task Force.
04:38It charged the embedding racial discrimination more deeply into its standards and excellence programs, including, by the way, accreditation.
04:46And in 2022, Bunch's task force issued its final report stating that diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion must be at
04:55the center of how we understand and practice excellence in our institutions.
05:00And he also called for moving the profession away from what it called white dominant characteristics of perfection, risk aversion
05:09and conflicts avoidance.
05:10Yes, yes, Bunch's task force identified perfection as a supposedly white dominant characteristic.
05:19Now, this explains why DOJ and EEOC has identified more than 30 programs and practices that, according to the agencies,
05:28appear on their face to violate federal nondiscrimination law.
05:32Now, at something called the Delaware STEM Equity Conference back in 22, Smithsonian Director Carol O'Donnell explained how Secretary Bunch
05:41drove that DEI mission.
05:44Secretary Lonnie Bunch is a lifelong educator who has dedicated his career to diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion and belonging.
05:53His grand challenge in education is to answer this question.
05:57How do we dismantle structural and systemic racism to ensure equity in education?
06:03The following has to be true.
06:05The principles of diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion and belonging must be integral in the conception, design and implementation of all
06:15of our work.
06:16I love how she's reading and the acronym keeps getting longer and longer.
06:19I'm just sticking with DEI.
06:20So they do have DEI on the brain.
06:23You throw in accessibility and whatever the B word was.
06:25Anyway, woke, gobbledygook, all of it.
06:28It means nothing.
06:28It teaches kids nothing except resentment and division.
06:31Now, after President Trump issued his executive order disbanding DEI and federal offices, the Smithsonian knew it had to do
06:39something.
06:39But rather than just stop, it did a sneaky rebrand.
06:43For the annual summit of the Smithsonian Science Education Center, they replaced the word diversity with the words leadership and
06:51skilled.
06:53Come on, guys, you're not fooling anyone here.
06:55So Bunch's departure gives the Smithsonian an opportunity for a new beginning.
07:01The question is no longer who will replace him, but what kind of Smithsonian will come next?
07:07The Smithsonian should open its records to appropriate scrutiny and make clear what was done, why it was done and
07:15what's going to change.
07:16It's time to recommit to President Johnson's vision of a national museum of American history that showcases the victory of
07:25freedom and genius of our country.
07:28And that's the angle.
07:29because of it's about a national if it's about a national empire.
07:29This is about sailENTEEN's vision of a men's shadow.
