Natural History Museum to review potentially 'offensive' Charles Darwin collection

The Natural History Museum will become the latest institution to review it’s collections after an audit warned its Charles Darwin exhibitions could be seen as “offensive”.

An internal review, sanctioned in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, has led to an audit into some rooms, statues, and collected items that could potentially cause offence.

It warns that collections which some may find “problematic” could include specimens gathered by Darwin, whose voyage to the Galapagos Island on HMS Beagle was cited by a curator as one of Britain’s many “colonialist scientific expeditions”.

Museum bosses are now desperately seeking to address what some staff believe are “legacies of colonies, slavery and empire” by potentially renaming, relabelling, or removing these traces in the institution.

The executive board told staff in documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph that “in light of Black Lives Matter and the recent anti-racist demonstrations around the world” the museum would undertake a review of existing room names and “whether any statues (or collections) or could potentially cause offence”.

One of the institution's directors said in internal documents that new action taken to address these issues would alter “the use and display of our collections and public spaces”.

An example of the new thinking to address perceived imperial connections to science was a paper penned by a curator and shared with staff, which claimed “science, racism, and colonial power were inherently entwined”.

The work further argues that “museums were put in place to legitimise a racist ideology”, that “covert racism exists in the gaps between the displays”, and as a result collections need to be decolonised.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/05/natural-history-museum-review-potentially-offensive-charles/


Yet more examples of the critical race theory in action

Absolutely bonkers

This sums it up  very well, how divisive this concept is

https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com/status/1302251432008126468

Why don't we do this correctly, let's burn every book, document and piece of paper in the world, then destroy all exhibits, museums and art galleries that are in existence, then we cleanse every culture on the planet, not just the white ones - just to be equal, all the while forbidding on pain of death any mention of anything good or bad that's in the past back from which ever day it happens to be, which of course would with the rest of the week days have to be renamed or numbered so as not to commemorate anyone or anything - just to be equal and when we've completed that we can start a totally politically correct existence with no memories of yesterday, nothing can be named after anyone or anything, no one is ever commemorated - just to be completely equal, then start with year 1 and soon we'll all be dying of lassitude.

Just a thought, why do we only hear people complaining about Europeans and Black Slavery when just about every culture has had its non glorious episodes of conquering and enslaving, so where is the line drawn, how long in the past does it have to be that  blame is not attached anymore?
Do they ever consider when (rightly)denigrating our European ancestors for their acts, that in fact their own African ancestors were complicit in the slave trade, it was they that had a lucrative slave trade with the Arabs long before the Europeans came along and joined in, neither the Arabs nor the Europeans had to kidnap people into slavery, that had already happened, the majority of African slaves were purchased from Africans..

It's all just part of the anti white agenda

White is the new black....or that's how it seems now.