{"id":643751,"date":"2026-07-30T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=643751"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:54:18","slug":"fresh-scrutiny-falls-on-the-smithsonians-leadership-and-political-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=643751","title":{"rendered":"Fresh scrutiny falls on the Smithsonian\u2019s leadership and political connections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Fox News review of the \u201cwoke\u201d Smithsonian Institution\u2019s employees and staffers led to the discovery of a hive of Democratic Party operatives.<\/p>\n

The investigation found \u201croughly two dozen individuals employed by the Smithsonian in leadership positions or as curators who worked for Democratic offices or progressive nonprofits before being hired,\u201d according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hirings start at the top and go all the way to the bottom.<\/p>\n

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FIRE THEM ALL:
\nFormer Democratic staffers, DEI leaders shape Smithsonian leadership amid political firestorm
\nReview of public biographies reveals former liberal staffers and DEI advocates now serve as curators and leaders @smithsonian<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rApzLRGppr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Way Forward**Breaking News Daily (@Emperorhanger) July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Roshni Lal, the director of the Smithsonian\u2019s office of academic appointments and internships, has spent her whole career promoting so-called diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI).<\/p>\n

DEI is a subversive ideology that calls for rectifying the sins of past discrimination against primarily blacks by applying modern discrimination against primarily whites and Asians.<\/p>\n

\u201cLal previously was the director of diversity, equity and inclusion for the Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers, where she oversaw policies, training and programming she characterized as anti-racist and rooted in social justice,\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n

Prior to that gig, she \u201cheld DEI-related roles at the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Colleges and Employers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lal\u2019s predecessor, Eric Woodard, previously worked for the Clinton White House and the Obama State Department.<\/p>\n

Joy G. Kinard, the chairwoman of the National Museum of American History political history division, also oversees the Smithsonian\u2019s very \u201cwoke\u201d Center for Restorative History.<\/p>\n

According to the center\u2019s website, it exists to \u201cspotlight the people and stories that have been excluded from our national narrative using the principles of restorative justice\u201d by bringing together \u201cdiverse voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

So-called restorative justice refers to the practice of trying to \u201chelp\u201d a criminal offender instead of trying to rightly punish them.<\/p>\n

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Listen to this Insane WOKE ideology and social justice warrior feminist, discussing rape and restorative justice, with Andrew Wilson. \"\ud83e\udd2f\"\"\ud83e\udd2f\"\"\ud83d\ude31\"\"\ud83d\ude31\"\"\ud83d\ude33\"\"\ud83d\ude33\"<\/p>\n

\u201cRestorative Justice\u201d is just another WOKE based toxic empathy for criminals (and none for the victims) ideology. pic.twitter.com\/JHUeSaHnG0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 GnosisWolf (@GnosisWolf) October 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAmong the center\u2019s flagship programs are an effort to preserve the history of the Black Lives Matter movement by centering the perspectives of activists and a \u2018decolonization working group,’\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n

Laura Johnson, the Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the National Museum of American History, is focused on \u201cstitching social justice throughout the Americas,\u201d according to a Smithsonian biography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nancy Bercaw, a curator of Political History, previously \u201cauthored and edited several volumes on race, gender, and emancipation\u201d as a University of Mississippi professor, according to the Smithsonian\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Other leftist curators include one who \u201cpreviously worked for the liberal Urban Institute,\u201d one who \u201cwas a senior staffer for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u201d; one who \u201cserved as the deputy assistant secretary of education during the Obama administration\u201d; and one who \u201ccame from the NAACP.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NAACP is short for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which many see as a blatantly racist organization that explicitly pushes black interests over the interests of everybody else.<\/p>\n

This deep dive into the \u201cwoke\u201d Smithsonian comes at a time when the institution is under heavy fire for its leftist ways.<\/p>\n

Hillsdale College professor Matthew Spalding testified to Congress<\/a> earlier this month about \u201cefforts by the National Museum of American History (NMAH) to replace the story of America\u2019s past with an activist ideology aimed at transforming its future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he National Museum of American History is no longer the nation\u2019s museum of American history,\u201d Spalding maintained. \u201cThe real crime here, premeditated and followed through, is that America\u2019s story \u2014 the well-established narrative of main characters and key events long at the center of American self-understanding \u2014 has been so reframed, jettisoned, decentered, deconstructed, and \u2018problematized\u2019 that it no longer exists in recognizable form.\u201d<\/p>\n

His assessment paralleled the findings in a 162-page report published by the White House. The report noted that the NMAH\u2019s leadership \u201chas explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Fox News review of the \u201cwoke\u201d Smithsonian Institution\u2019s employees and staffers led to the discovery of a hive of Democratic Party operatives. The investigation found \u201croughly two dozen individuals employed by the Smithsonian in leadership positions or as curators who worked for Democratic offices or progressive nonprofits before being hired,\u201d according to Fox News.… Continue reading Fresh scrutiny falls on the Smithsonian\u2019s leadership and political connections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/643752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}