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Opening the building, why would the museum even help to organize such a conference . Well, the simple answer is that were crazy. But the real answer is that at the smithsonian, at this museum, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decade of research and academic scholarship as a foundation, there would be no National Museum of African American history and culture. So we know that we are tied so much to the work that so many of you do. So much of the intellectual and interpretive agenda of the museum has been shaped by the work of many who are participating in this conference. Thanks to this amazing array of scholarship, the museum is able to position itself as an discussion that will help all who visit find the rich, complex, and nuanced history of the African American ....
[ applause ] day two of the Republican Convention begins this afternoon. House speaker paul ryan, majority leader much mcconnell, House Majority leader kevin mccarthy, two of Donald Trumps children and former republican president ial candidate ben carson are all scheduled to speak. Tonights theme is make america work again. Live Convention Coverage starts today on cspan at 5 30 p. M. Youll have a front row seat to every minute of the republican and Democratic National conventions on cspan. Org. Watch live streams of the Convention Proceedings without commentary or commercials. Use our video clipping tool to create your own clips of ....
Take this to the country and run on this and litigate this. We want to defend it so that if and when we win, we can do it. [ applause ] guess what . Guess what . Hillary clinton isnt going to do one of these things. Not going to do a darn thing. Shes against all of these things, these principles we believe in. This is a binary choice. It is either donald trump or Hillary Clinton. If youre not for donald trump and not voting and not showing up, youre helping Hillary Clinton. [ applause ] pretty much that clear. I want to close with this. I mentioned how texans really understand freedom, but i dont think you fully realized until a few years ago. Where my wife is it from, the north side of lake texoma, for decades and decades you could go hill billy catfishing with your own bare hands. Its an exhilarating sport. I encourage it. It wasnt legalized until two years, you can noodl ....
This is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and thats what i would hope were doing in history. Which is not necessarily creating im not trying to create a new narrative. Im not trying to say if we do that now, well come to another narrative that were all going to agree on. I guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to add other things that they think are silent because were all going to create something that has silences in it. But to have a lot of things that have been silent and not to worry about whether im not running a museum, i can say not worry, not to worry about the things that are going to be upset about that, are in there or included, et cetera. Yeah. [ applause ] my name is Junior Williams from newark, new jersey. The sum that is i think so ....