*President Obama appeared on Saturday at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where he alluded to Black Lives Matter protests, and called for Donald Trump to take time out and visit the historic museum.
Obama said the museum would tell an American story, one of “suffering and delight, one of fear, but also of hope, of wandering in the wilderness, and then seeing, out on the horizon, a glimmer of the Promised Land.”
President Obama also believes presidential candidate Donald Trump could learn a thing or two from the new museum located in Washington, D.C, time.com reports.
“What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress in the future,” Obama said in an ABC interview from the museum.
Obama also criticized Trump for saying that “African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape than they’ve ever been in before, ever, ever, ever.”
“I think even most 8-year-olds would tell you that whole slavery thing wasn’t very good for black people. Jim Crow wasn’t very good for black people,” the President said.
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*Oprah says the deaths of unarmed black men in America parallels the death of Emmett Till, the black teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
The recent police-involved shootings and the resulting protests are also reminiscent of the racially charged ’50s and ‘60s, and the civil rights movement.
TMZ caught up with Oprah in D.C. shortly after she made her first trip to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture — and she said the Emmett Till exhibit hit her hard in light of recent events. Check out the video below.
She also commented on whether she shares the sentiment that President Obama is the greatest black man of all-time.
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