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Trump Report Says Smithsonian Calls Mickey Mouse Symbol of Blackface Minstrelsy
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Mickey Mouse 'Blackface' Is Why Trump Needs To Fix The Smithsonian
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"Mickey Mouse with his outsized facial features, white gloves, and trickster temperament represents vestigages of long-standing traditions of blackface minstrecy. Smithsonian is saying that Mickey Mouse is about blackface like that. Of all the things about Mickey Mouse, that's the thing you need to know."
A White House Domestic Policy Council report titled 'Saving America's Story' reveals that the taxpayer-funded National Museum of American History displays a placard characterizing Mickey Mouse as representing vestiges of blackface minstrelsy traditions. The 162-page report criticizes the Smithsonian for presenting American history through an ideologically captured, anti-Western lens rather than celebrating shared national heritage.
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- Mickey Mouse 'Blackface' Is Why Trump Needs To Fix The Smithsonian
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