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4. It's just sickening, been visiting museums all my life

Fri May 24, 2019, 05:51 PM

May 2019

and worked for 30 years as a museum educator in art and history museums in the DC area. Never heard anything like this disgrace.

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Boston Museum of Fine Arts Apologizes for Alleged Racist Behavior Toward Black Students [View all] appalachiablue May 2019 OP

Saw this story earlier today BumRushDaShow May 2019 #1

It's just sickening, been visiting museums all my life appalachiablue May 2019 #4

A museum staff person said "No watermelon" madaboutharry May 2019 #2

Shocking and disgraceful to a museum professional here. appalachiablue May 2019 #5

Is the staffer related to this guy dalton99a May 2019 #3

A powerful image but I don't recognize it. Can you provide some appalachiablue May 2019 #7

Here's a write-up: dalton99a May 2019 #9

What an ugly era, the Boston busing crisis and much more, appalachiablue May 2019 #10

About the watermelon comment....WTH? Wow. Honeycombe8 May 2019 #6

There's no excuse for this. Middle Schoolerers, staff knows appalachiablue May 2019 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar May 2019 #12

This incident happened over a week ago; news articles are appalachiablue May 2019 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar May 2019 #14

Wow, as if it's probable that anyone will readily admit, Kind of Blue May 2019 #16

Yeah, posted this in the A-A group yesterday. Kind of Blue May 2019 #15