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The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum is not actually a Museum yet. Set up by Congress in 2020, it is according to its website “at least 10 years” from having a building. In Who Will Win In A Museum Fight: Women Or Latinxes? last year, Steve Sailer noted that a fight is going on about if the available prime location will instead go to the new National Museum of the American Latino.
However, the money is rolling in—$55 million so far from the usual type of donors. And last Monday March 13th we learned Nancy Yao Named First Director of the New Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
First Generation American (possibly immigrant – mother took English lessons). Last 8 years running ethnocentric Chinese in America Museum.
Moral: No Historic American Nation members need apply. https://t.co/8xE4LORzEv— Patrick Cleburne (@PCleburneVdare) March 13, 2023
This appointment of course is a vicious insult to the probably thousands of better qualified white women, particularly of Founding Stock origin, who might reasonably expect to head this major institution which if it has any integrity at all, has to be primarily about the activities of their ancestors. Indeed, it raises serious doubts about what is intended.
In her thanks quoted in the announcement above, Nancy Yao said she was
Indebted to Lonnie Bunch, Kevin Gover …and interim director Lisa Sasaki
Lonnie Bruce, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, is black.
Kevin Gover, Under Secretary for Museums and Culture is “a citizen of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma”.
Lisa Sasaki, director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is ethnically Japanese.
Is the Smithsonian under a Minority Occupation Government?
This would certainly explain the appointment of Nancy Yao (who generally seems to go under her married name of Nancy Yao Maasbach: apparently the Smithsonian PR people did not like that).
Yao was born in Flushing, NY in 1971 or 72, to Chinese immigrants so recent that as a schoolgirl she was helping her mother learn English. Her father had a job with Pan American World Airways which enabled the family to spend the summers with relatives in Hong Kong and Taiwan[ Nancy Yao Maasbach ’99, by Rebecca Beyer, Yale School of Management, January 18, 2021 ].(She observes in this interview that her college visit to the School of Management there in 1997 was her first trip to Connecticut). In her MBA course and in her Undergraduate course at Occidental College Yao stressed Chinese subjects. Her decade-long career in Finance was focused on China, including several years living in Hong Kong.
She has no academic qualifications in American History.
From 2015 to the present she has run the Museum of Chinese in America, a tiny New York operation taking a magnifying glass to the Chinese immigrant experience in this country.
Actually, Nancy Yao comes across in interviews as rather engaging, not the usual conceited grievance-driven harridan. In an interview given to Stony Brook University’s Women in US-Asian Relations Oral History Project she says
I’m Christian. My parents aren’t but I am. I went to church on my own from a very young age.
and says
I wanted to leave Goldman [Sachs] because I…kind of felt like my personality was changing a little bit, and I didn’t like that about myself…for some reason the culture was affecting me in a way that I felt like I wasn’t being the best person I could be… [“Nancy Yao Maasbach,” Women in US-Asian Relations Oral History Project, March 21, 2023]
which is greatly to her credit. And of course she has married a white man with a Dutch surname.
But as an entrepreneur in the ethnic spoils game, she has certainly smelled the coffee. Jumping on the BLM bandwagon, she reopened the Museum of Chinese In America after COVID with a me-too exhibit Responses: Asian American Voices Resisting the Tides of Racism . The top photo on this account is of an Asian woman holding up a sign reading “Yellow Peril supports Black Power”
An example of the Coalition of the Fringes: black crime victimizing Asians has been a Thing for over a hundred years, but clueless youth are demonstrating against "whiteness". pic.twitter.com/Qryj3lOap9
— VDARE (@vdare) March 21, 2023
Yao was rewarded by an op-ed slot at the New York Daily News in which she parroted the party line:
The pandemic began in 2020 with an outburst of anti-Chinese racism from the former president, which helped to lay the kindling for where we find ourselves today…
There has always been an undercurrent of prejudice toward Asians and Asian-Americans in some corners of New York City and in America, but the pandemic has created a petri dish where such hatred can grow and fester…I am terrified to use mass transit following those recent crimes against people who look like me.
To combat anti-Asian hate, teach its roots by Nancy Yao Maasbach, February 4, 2022 [Archive link]
She concludes by demanding another layer of guilting be laid on White American schoolchildren (in addition to the black and Holocaust brainwashing):
It starts in our classrooms. We must all do our part to create more space for a more diverse and inclusive American narrative. We must make this education accessible if we hope for respect and acceptance to stop hate crimes.
In an even more virtue-signaling tweet, she says
If Nancy Yao indulged in intellectual honesty, or had some scraps of gratitude to the people who created the Institutions from which she is benefiting so much, she might have noted that both the “hate crimes” cited in her Op Ed were committed by blacks (see here and here). And indeed that the de-policing of blacks in NY is the main cause of the present massive deterioration in the city.
But if she said that, the Smithsonian’s top black, Lonnie Bruce, would veto her appointment to this plum job.
The direction the Smithsonian management wants the Museum to go is clearly demonstrated by the four picture sequence at the top of the websit e at present.
The first is a group of five unidentified young black women.
The next is of a black female musician.
The third is of Bessie Coleman , an early black aviator killed in a plane crash in 1926 after five years of stunt flying.
The fourth is a generic poster for the Museum store.
Perhaps under Nancy Yao’s leadership some Asian women will appear?
VDARE.com has been reporting that the Smithsonian has been moving in an Anti-American direction for a number of years. See
- SMITHSONIAN Magazine Endorsing Anti-Southern Propaganda In Richmond, VA
- The Smithsonian Explains White Culture
- The Smithsonian Scandal: “Where There Is No Moral Community, There Is No Country”
History at the Smithsonian is being reduced to antiquarianism—an obsession with quaint details at the expense of weight and perspective. Apart from early aviator Bessie Coleman, a truly classic case was discussed by Steve Sailer in “The Mother of Modern Medicine”. This involved the Smithsonian’s hyping of Henrietta Lack, whose claim to the title they gave her was that she got cancer and died.
So, no white woman to lead the American Women’s History Museum (forget about a man!). And on present indications, Whites will appear only as a foil for Coalition of the Fringes Triumphalism.
This is the Great Replacement at work.
Email Patrick Cleburne.
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“Of course, tyranny springs from no other form of government than democracy, for from the highest freedom springs the strongest and most savage servitude. Like slime and bile, the drones take hold. But in democracy, with few exceptions, they are at the head, and their cunning group speaks and acts, and allows no other opinion to appear.” (Plato)
Surrendering museums to these jackals looks like a massive unforced error.
White liberals are happy to have nonwhites fronting their institutions. Yao doesn’t sound that bad. Asian ladies probably have the most merit among all the nonwhites who could be hired at these places. The Motion Picture Academy recently elected an Asian woman as its president.
That flyer on White Culture is actually a pretty good summary of Anglo-Celtic culture.
The one thing I remember from when I visited the Smithsonian is the Hope Diamond. That diamond has quite a history.
the Smithsonian is gubmint media.
the gubmint is a a hostile, anti-White ZOG.
the overarching problem remains:
Jews.
I’m sure Yao is just another yellow dog pushing the Jewish globo-homo line, BUT the white descendants of the ‘founding stock’ are among the most ‘woke’ and anti-white people around. Look where such people are centered in Vermont and Massachusetts, and they are neo-puritanical about globo-homo, BLM, and Diversity.
Long ago, the puritanism among such folks was about religion. Now, it’s about the secular gods controlled by the Jews.
Take a poll among founding stock Americans, especially among the elites, on the big issues of the day, and they are the worst of the worst.
As to the Yankee stock Anglos of NewEngland and the Pacific NW, I agree. But not of the “Scotch Irish”/Anglo inflow which populated the South and Appalachia, and their decendants.
The deep roots of this ideological division were brilliantly identified in Kevin Philips’ “Emerging Republican Majority” in 1969, which remains one of the greatest books of US political anlaysis. Phillips envisaged future GOP victores DESPITE the loss of the traditional Yankee strongholds as presaged by their defection over Goldwater.
But more importantly, the fact that the Smithsonian could easily have found abundent Left Zealots amongst Whites undelines that what is going on here is a racial conquest rather than an ideological shift.
No Whites need apply.
Most Yankees, of course, are too bigoted to notice. But perhaps their excluded children will.
More anti-White encroachment into our institutions. This will only end badly as most of these people are horribly unqualified.
Are you sure Yao was selected because of her ethnicity? Maybe she was selected because of her fair looks, and the second runner up was a big fat white bovine Wal-mart shopper.
The so-called “whites” are being replaced because they want to be replaced.
Hajnal European supremacy is real. They really are the best. However, they think being the best is a sin or something and would prefer not to exist. They are getting and will get what they want. The Christian races will vanish from the Earth, just as planned.
If you don’t want to be replaced, you can chill. Intent matters, and it doesn’t apply to you. The Amish aren’t being replaced; they are not meaningfully Christian. Are you richer than the Amish? Can you fight harder than they can? If so, they can’t replace you without your permission.
Perhaps that’s what this article is? “It’s working guys! Rejoice! We’re being replaced!”
Orientals should stay in the Orient. They are not naturally inclined to independent thought. Individualism is naturally unfamiliar to them. They naturally fare better in a hive. Is there a country in the Orient with qualities that America possesses? If there is one, why do Orientals immigrate to America and not to an America-equivalent country in the Orient? Why do they come here? And of course, do Orientals in America ever mention how racists their countrymen treat blacks and brown people in their homelands? C’mon, Orientals are viciously racists everywhere the world over.
Everybody hates everybody and everybody thinks they’re better then everybody. We’re all messed up!
Yet, Orientals are an aberration to the American fabric along with Arabs, and Pacific Islanders. America wasn’t intended for the whole world to come here and plunder it. It was meant for Heritage Americans. America’s heritage and history needs to be protected from more interlopers like Yao and her ilk.
The communist world conspiracy is working on five fronts:
▲ through class struggle in the capitalist countries
▲ by aggravating the world economic crisis
▲ by increasing the antagonisms between the capitalist powers, between the victors of the world war among themselves and between the victors and the vanquished
▲ by raising the colored races, the yellow, brown and black, especially the Oriental peoples, against the whites. In addition to these four aims, which could be summarized into one, namely, to cause as much evil as possible in the world, there is a fifth, the main aim.
▲ Bringing in the NWO.
You mean the native Indians? Yeah, they’re all on reservation grounds.
Kevin Gover is about as Pawnee as my pet hamster
“Yao was born in Flushing, NY in 1971 or 72, to Chinese immigrants so recent that as a schoolgirl she was helping her mother learn English.”
Unfortunately the regularly overflowing sewers (from where Flushing got it’s name), didn’t do their work and flush this foul leftist out to sea before she could grow up and become another menace to the nation.
It won’t be long before Ms. Yao sells it to China to pay off some of the Smithsonian’s debt, once China gets hold of it and how unlucky it is, the name will be changed to the Wong Diamond. Boy, did we make the wong deal on that!
Interesting observation. I recently read a biography of screenwriter Stirling Silliphant (“In the Heat of the Night,” etc.) and was surprised that he was of “founding stock” background, considering he was as vile a liberal as you could imagine. The infamous Communist writer Dalton Trumbo claimed likewise to be a direct descendant of the founding fathers. Why should this be so? They certainly aren’t “outsiders,” like the group that is usually cited for its destructive anti-white liberalism.
Slight quibble the Scotch and Irish, and the Scotcs who lived in Ireland for a few decades 400 years ago are not Anglo. They are a mix of Celts and Scandinavian Viking invaders.
And yes, the descendants of the founders are very liberal progressive and woke. Same as Jews in that regard.
The Men of UNZ who still think America is a nation with Whites in control should take a trip to Washington DC. Now’s a good time. Just walk around the government buildings at 5PM and see the hordes of non Whites leaving work. This includes the military bases and pentagon.
Or spend a week in your own State Capitol. Blacks Asians Hispanics
America was still a White nation in 1969. Kevin Phillips book is completely out dated. The real problem is that Whites are excluded from government jobs at all levels by affirmative action.
Check out the 2020 election that was stolen from Trump by low IQ black women election clerks
The Men of UNZ are unaware of the take over of government by non Whites. Probably because they live in their computers. Non Whites really run America.
And it was 100 percent White men presidents Vice Presidents Supreme Court justices senators and all but about ten Congress critters who did it in 1968 and 1973.
Fact check the founding fathers were all Platoists And they wrote the constitution to ensure America would not be ruled by the rabble. But by natural very intelligent highly moral and upright wise superior men who would rise to leadership because of their natural born superiority. Men like themselves.
Somehow it didn’t work. We certainly don’t have the democracy Plato deplored. What we have is infinitely worse.
Harvard the Supreme Court and the other aristocratics united with the lowest of the low, 75 IQ black criminals to rule the country.
I disagree. Even now, after 2 generations of heavy immigration, KP’s predictions of changes in future State voting patterns remain fairly accurate.
But what Priss Factor and I were discussing was the political propensities of the founding British influxes. These were illuminatingly analysed in David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed” (1989).
The ‘Yankee’ influx into New England arrived with a strong leftist bias on religious and social issues, which has persisted. The English who arrived in the South and the ‘Scotch-Irish’ (Ulstermen) who entered the Appalachians were traditionalists in religion and ethnocentric. Also warlike.
The latter are the people who might be mobilized to get us out of this mess,- along with subsequent groups like the Irish and the Italians, who do not seem to be ashamed of who they are.