Friday, August 18, 2017

No doubt they all feel better, but the boss now gets to replace them. Or not.


All of the private members of the President's Council on the Arts & Humanities have resigned over the *resident's handling of Charlottesville.

"Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values," their letter concludes. "Your values are not American values. We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear to you, then we call on you to resign your office, too."

The committee's website notes,
The private Members are appointed by each administration, and represent some of the country’s most prominent and successful artists, actors, architects, dancers, authors, scholars, philanthropists, and businesspeople.
Remaining on the body, created by President Reagan in 1982, are the heads of 12 federal agencies with cultural programs, including the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U. S. Departments of Education, Treasury, and State, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The Committee's Honorary Chairwoman is the *residen't wife.


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