Really disappointed in the Boston Massacre site / museum... (Page 1/1) 82-T/A [At Work] MAR 20, 09:20 AM For those of you who have been to Boston, you all know about the freedom trail and the old courthouse. You probably also know that it's an NPS site, and you can walk throughout the old Courthouse and there are numerous displays. I've been there a few times before in my life, but happened to be there on a New England trip I took with my family for my daughter's spring break. As the subject states, I was really disappointed in the information they portrayed. There are facts, and then there's information that is unimportant. The most important take-away... not my opinion, but the fact as it applies to our history as a country, is that the Boston Massacre led to the events in which John Adams bucked the popular narrative, and defended the British soldiers. Against a lot of adversity, John Adams believed everyone deserved a "fair trial by jury" ... a jury of your peers. He also believed that everyone deserved an equal defense, and because no one else would, he defended the soldiers, even though he was vehemently against British rule. These actions, this scenario... led to the literal foundation of our system of justice in this country... a foundation that other countries have since adopted. Why I'm upset is because in this museum, there was absolutely no mention, WHATSOEVER, of John Adams defending the British soldiers, or this having any effect or any mention at all, of this affecting our system of justice. Literally, there wasn't even a mention of John Adams in the courthouse... which is ridiculous because the new courthouse down the street (which is already old) was named after John Adams for this very reason. Instead... the entire third floor of the courthouse was on DEI stuff. A whole half of the third floor was on this guy named Crispus Attucks. He was a freed slave, or something... that was one of the colonists who was killed. No disrespect to the guy, but the fact that he, or any of the other colonists were killed are of absolutely no importance whatsoever to the history. They don't mention the other colonists who were killed... but focus entirely on Crispus Attucks. This infuriates me... sucks for Crispus, it does... but none of it had any bearing whatsoever on the outcome or the point of that moment in history. The other half of the third floor covers things like... "Native American voices," and "Hispanic voices," and "Asian voices," which... again... WTF does this have to do with the Boston Massacre and the founding of our system of justice? The second floor was mostly seating (the large assembly area, of course)... and the basement, just talked about the tunnels, etc., and the subway system. ... an additional point worth mentioning, the "Common Gathering Building," which it is now formally called, but is actually a Christian church... has a large life-sized statue of Margaret Sanger. You know, I don't have a problem with her being in there, whatever... it's fine... but they go to great length to talk about what a wonderful person she was... emphasizing her desire to put an end to people having multiple children (focusing on that being a bad thing). To each their own... but they've COMPLETELY left out anything related to the racist-roots of Margaret Sanger... the fact that she invented eugenics, and that she did what she did because she wanted to get rid of what she called the "negroid" condition. I mean, this lady is so completely disgusting at her core, but she's paraded around as a hero. If we're going to tell the story, we need to be completely honest about it. The history in both of these museums were at best... an exercise in DEI... the CRT version, not reality. cliffw MAR 20, 10:58 AM Thanks. I may be going to Boston this year, free time vacation. People pay good money to go to Miami for Spring Break. I know, think, you are now out of Tampa. You made a good decision. 82-T/A [At Work] MAR 21, 07:27 AM quote Originally posted by cliffw: Thanks. I may be going to Boston this year, free time vacation. People pay good money to go to Miami for Spring Break. I know, think, you are now out of Tampa. You made a good decision. We did a lot of fun things on the trip, Acadia National Park, etc... but I was very disappointed about these museums. The whole point and existence of these museums is about the founding of the country, and instead, it's become a shrine to a man who was so completely unimportant in history, literally because he is black. Like, I'm sorry of that offends people... but of the purported 3-7 people who died during the Boston Massacre, all of them individually are irrelevant... as a whole, it set off a series of events which are important, but the individuals are not... that's just what it is. I can't even think of a proper correlation to how absurd it is. It would be like if I created a Museum about the Pontiac Fiero, in the original Pontiac Fiero factory. The logos and everything were everywhere, but then once you went inside, there was a huge homage to one of the line workers. An entire half of the floor space of the museum was dedicated to this guy's life... articles of clothing, and everything he did in life leading up to the point where he first started working for Pontiac Motor Division. And then the other side of the factory's floor space has DEI-bull **** from people who never even worked there, or had nothing to do with Pontiac or the Fiero, giving their opinions about racial inequity. So you go in there, after paying $20 bucks a person or whatever it was, and you're asking yourself... where is all the Fiero stuff? This is literally the Boston Massacre museum... Fats MAR 21, 11:38 AM Then it later turns out the guy at the Pontiac museum worked on the Cavalier line the entire time, but filled in one day on the Fiero line. 82-T/A [At Work] MAR 22, 07:18 AM quote Originally posted by Fats: Then it later turns out the guy at the Pontiac museum worked on the Cavalier line the entire time, but filled in one day on the Fiero line. Pretty much... it's completely ridiculous. Notorio MAR 31, 12:19 AM quote Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]: ... Why I'm upset is because in this museum, there was absolutely no mention, WHATSOEVER, of John Adams defending the British soldiers, or this having any effect or any mention at all, of this affecting our system of justice. Literally, there wasn't even a mention of John Adams in the courthouse... which is ridiculous because the new courthouse down the street (which is already old) was named after John Adams for this very reason ... That is really sad. One can readily imagine local school children being taken on field trips to this museum. Having read a lot about the Boston Massacre, I think you are spot on placing John Adams at the center of the story and what he did for our legal process as being foundational. He was ostracized for defending the British soldiers, and this for a man who loved his State and its People. It is criminal that the museum staff has excised him from the story. You should consider sending a strongly worded letter to the museum and the local paper.