National Latino Museum Plan Faces Fight

Seven years after opening its National Museum rift gold for sale  of the American Indian, and four years before the scheduled unveiling of its museum of African-American star trek online cd key   history, the Smithsonian Institution is being urged to create another ethnic museum on the National Mall, this one to recognize the history and contributions of Latino cheap star trek cd key   Americans.A federal buy star trek cd key   commission has spent two years asking Latinos what they would want in such a star trek online power leveling   museum, and next month the commission will report its findings to Congress, which buy star trek power leveling  would have to approve a new museum.Though the creation of such an institution has support from members of Congress, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and celebrities like sto power leveling , building it faces significant obstacles, including budget pressures and a feeling among sto pwl  some in Washington that the Smithsonian should stop spinning off new specialty museums and concentrate on star trek energy credits  improving the ones it already has.“I don’t want a situation,” said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, “where whites go to buy star trek energy credits  the original museum, African-Americans go to the African-American museum, Indians star trek online gold  go to the Indian museum, Hispanics go to the Latino American museum. That’s not America.”In buy sto gold  Washington, where politics infects all matters, there is wide acknowledgment that the 50 million Latinos who live in this country have become an increasingly star trek gold for sale  important constituency. But even supporters of the museum acknowledge it faces a battle. “The blade and soul gold  atmosphere is not friendly at all,” said Estuardo V. Rodriguez Jr., a lobbyist with the Raben Group who has worked pro bono on the museum buy blade and soul gold  proposal, citing the economic pressures and what he described as anti-immigrant cheap blade and soul gold  sentiment.The idea for a Smithsonian Latino museum was born in the mid-1990s when a task force said the Smithsonian had largely ignored blade and soul online gold  Latinos in its exhibitions and should create at least one museum to correct that imbalance.The panel’s report, entitled “Willful Neglect,” found, blade and soul cd key  for example, that only 2 of the 470 people featured in the “notable Americans” section buy blade and soul cd key   of the National Portrait Gallery were Latino.Since then the Smithsonian has set aside money for Latino exhibitions cheap blade and soul cd key   and created an internal office to promote them. It agreed that a Latino heritage museum in San Antonio, which opened in 2007, be designated blade and soul time card  as an affiliate. Called the buy blade and soul time card , the institution is allowed to borrow materials from the Smithsonian, but is not financed by it.There are cheap blade and soul time card  dozens of other museums across the country that focus on the heritage or culture of Latinos, whose population in the United States grew blade and soul account   by 43 percent over the last decade, according to 2010 Census figures. But supporters buy blade and soul account  of the national museum say it is imperative that there be a similar presence in the nation’s capital.While the commission is not expected to cheap blade and soul account  make specific proposals about content, the museum would probably try to cover bas account   a wide swath of history, from the role of the Spanish conquistadors to the work of buy bas account   Latinos in the labor and civil-rights movements. It would include culture, from popular music to visual arts, and would try to feature people and traditions from cheap bas account  all Hispanic countries.Lisa Navarrete, a spokeswoman for the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy organization, said it was unfortunate blade and soul power leveling  that Latino children who now travel to the Mall cannot see “their community and history and legacy reflected.”She said that a museum that accomplishes buy blade soul power leveling  that is particularly crucial now because discussions of immigration issues have created a “toxic” environment for Latinos. “It’s even more important to cheap blade soul power leveling  show other Americans that our roots go back centuries on this continent,” she said.Though legislation to authorize a Latino museum commission, known formally as the blade and soul power level, was first introduced in 2003 by Representative Xavier Becerra, a Democrat of California, it did not pass until 2008, as part of an omnibus blade soul power leveling   budget bill.The economy blade soul gold  and the balance of power in Congress have changed much since that vote, with buy blade soul gold   Republicans now holding a 49-vote majority in the House of Representatives.Federal money cheap blade soul gold   for the museum would not appear to be an option, members of Congress say, as it was for the African-American and Indian museums. buy bas gold  has a $500 million price tag, half of which is being paid by the federal government. The cheap bas gold  government paid for two-thirds of the Indian museum.Commission leaders chose in recent days bas cd key  not to speak about their report before they brief Congress, in the first week of May. But it is anticipated bas time card  that the panel will suggest that should a museum be authorized by the government, most of the financing could be raised blade soul cd key  privately.

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