1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I am writing to demand—yes, demand—that you condemn Donald Trump’s outrageous push to meddle with the Smithsonian’s displays about slavery. Let’s be clear: slavery was bad. Very bad. It was the theft of human lives, generations of suffering, and one of the ugliest stains on this country’s history. No amount of political spin or ego-driven revisionism will ever change that fact. Trump’s obsession with rewriting history is as pathetic as it is dangerous. It insults every person who suffered under slavery, every descendant still living with its consequences, and every American who values truth over propaganda. We don’t need his delusions painted on museum walls. We need honesty—raw, unflinching, uncomfortable honesty. If you have even a shred of moral backbone, you will denounce this nonsense immediately and publicly. Staying silent or trying to “both-sides” this issue is cowardly, and history won’t look kindly on anyone who chose cowardice when they could have chosen courage. So do your job. Speak out. Condemn this attempt to whitewash one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history. Anything less is complicity.