Ground will be broken this week on Washington's newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and in all honesty I'm of two minds about it.
Certainly if there is to be a separate national museum devoted to the history and culture of any group of Americans, this should be it. Americans have been arguing about slavery since before the founding of the republic. We fought a bloodywar over the enslavement of African Americans and we've been living with the social, economic, political and moral consequences ever since. African Americans also have had an outsize influence on American arts, science and athletics. That this week's cere-mony will be presided over by the first black president of the United States should be a moment of national pride.
