A Dark Side to Democracy?

Many people ask me: "Why would major news outlets, historic institutions, museums and academia have a problem with your project?"

Here is an excerpt from the BBC coverage of Trump's UK State Visit, June 3, 2019.

Trump Reads Roosevelt Prayer

​​During a radio message, President Roosevelt led the nation in a prayer ahead of the D-Day landings. President Trump takes to the stage to read the same prayer:

"Almighty God, our sons, pride of our nation, this day, have set upon a mighty endeavour; a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilisation; and to set free a suffering humanity.

"They will lead thy blessings for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, but we shall return again and again.

"And we know that by thy grace, and by the righteous of our cause, our sons will triumph.

"Some will never return. Embrace these father, and receive them, the heroic servants into thy kingdom. And O Lord, give us faith, faith in thee, faith in our sons, faith in each other, and faith in our united crusade.
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"Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen."

It was a crusade. For freedom? And for whom? 

I guess people like Trump. 

According to the BBC:
The Queen and the Prince of Wales attended the commemorations on Southsea Common, along with representatives from the countries that fought alongside the UK in the Battle of Normandy including French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 
Also attending were German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as leaders from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland and Slovakia.
  
Many Japanese Americans fought in Europe during WWII, recruited or drafted out of US concentration camps, Native Americans out of reservations and Blacks from a Jim Crow South.

My Freedom from Fear project was excluded, despite being told repeatedly my work was in the show, from The New York Historical Society, CUNY's Roosevelt House, sidelined at The Ford Museum and removed from The George Washington University Museum. I was told my work would not be included in the Four Freedoms exhibition in France at The Memorial de Caen, in Caen, France.