“Let's mention those who are trying to” restore “the narrow past and division, that the future belongs to all of us.
The Academy Award candidate also referred to the reprimand of those who “fear … the full American story in its amazing complexity and destructive contradictions.
And put it very frankly, Duvernay told the crowd: There is no future in its forgetfulness.
Although Donald Trump did not mention directly on her notes on May 8, Dofernai made her point of view very clear to anyone who captures what she was putting in his continuous attacks in Maga on democracy and diversity and Smithsonian itself. Saying that “now at a time when the truth is under the review,” the director and activist in strictly added: “We know that what is sometimes called an inappropriate ideology is actually necessary, that what some call is just a new perspective, buried long ago, has been revealed now.”
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Watch the functional video that extends to the Duvernay speech here:
“The unusual Dofniei's influence through the film's broker, using it to take an indisputable look at American history, brought it forward as a person embodies the highest ideals of the arts, altruism and invitation.” pedigreed Director of the award. “Its service and achievements embody the true meaning of an American.”
Read the full Ava Duvernay Smithsonian here:
Thanks to the National Museum of the American History, Dr. Hartege and the great leadership of Smithsonian for the really amazing honor. Do not waste me – what it means to stand in this place, with the support of an institution that understands the weight of history … and the wonder of telling it well.
This understanding looks particularly sooner now, at a time when the truth is subject to a review … and fear seems to be a moving power.
Fear of mirrors. Fear of memory.
Fear of the full American story that was narrated in its amazing complexity and destructive contradictions.
History is not a weapon to be washed when it is uncomfortable. It is not a sleeping time story aimed at calming sleep. It is a river flowing … deep and often turbulent. Smithsonian has long been a bridge that allows us to cross carefully.
We know that what is sometimes called “inappropriate ideology” is actually necessary. What some call “distorted” is just a new perspective – it has been buried now.
Let me tell you about the child who walks to Smithsonian and sees a picture of a woman who resembles her mother, who resembles her grandmother, stands long in protest, or in prayer, or in pride.
Let me tell you about the teacher who brings students here because their school books will not talk about Redlining, Tulsa, detention camps, or Stonewall. Let me tell you about families – black, white, brown, immigrant, and original – who walk through these doors and feel that this country may give them all.
This is not indoctrination.
This belongs.
This is education.
This is democracy.
At the head of this stronghold of the truth, the man of vision, a man of class, from stability, secretary, is the high doctor. Lony Banch. The first historian to lead Smithsonian. The first African American to do so. The Secretary of Courage. Good guardian. The creator of bridges between pain and progress.
Under his leadership, Smithsonian did what America should do – in putting contradictions in our founding, and the rift lines illuminated in our systems, and it is still a space for grace, for the sake of growth, for growth, for greatness.
Because the truth here is … There is no honor in history chasing itself. There is no integrity in memory that only remember each other. There is no future in forgetting.
For those who will close their eyes to injustice, who control the voices of our elders, our people, our scholars, and our artists – I do this:
We will not be forgotten. We will not make myths instead of memory. We will not trade the truth for comfort.
Instead, we will meet.
We will remember.
We will know.
We will share.
We will say everything.
Let's keep this line.
And let us mention those who are trying to “restore” the narrow -minded past – The future belongs to all of us. Even when the current bloating is on us, the bridge will carry, because the truth is worth passing. And with Smithsonian and this museum, we do not cross alone.
Thank you for tonightand a lot.
