Oh boy! here we go again...another slave center story...This story come straight from the Associated Press check it out and tell us what you think.
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) - Bill Cosby called on each American to contribute $8 (6) to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War.
Cosby, who already committed $ 1 million (780,000) to the project, joined Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder on Friday in launching a new campaign to raise $100 million (78 million) toward the Fredericksburg museum's $200 million (156 million) price tag.
"The incentative is that they would join in with the rest of the United States of America in saying yes, as an American, I gave $8 (6) to help build something that tells the story," he said in a teleconference with Wilder.
In a nation of some 300 million people, even a tepid response would surpass the $ 100 million (78 million) goal, Cosby said.
He admitted this kind of campaign "generally fails badly." "But I'm going to try again because I'm going to present this national slavery museum as a jewel that's missing in a crown."
The campaign marks the lastest attempts at fundraising for the U.S. National Slavery Museum, a project in the works for more than a decade.
Wilder struggled to find a location before settling on a site near the Rappahannock River, a region where many Civil War battles were fought. For Wilder, $8 (6) has symbolic significance in a campaign to create what is billed as the first national museum dedicated solely to telling the story of American slavery.
"The figure 8, in shape, is both of the shackles, which is the symbol of slavery," Wilder, a former Virginia governor and the grandson of slaves. He thought up the museum concept during a visit to Goree Island, the infamous slave shipping post in West Africa.
"If you turn it on its side, it's the symbol of infinite freedom," he said.
Wilder said the museum has about $50 million (39) on hand.
On The Net: U.S. National Slavery Museum, www.usnationalslaverymuseum.org
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- Do blacks in America need a National Slavery Museum?
- Are you willing to send $8 or more towards this national museum?
- How do you feel about that struggling money sucking white appeaser we have right here in Cincinnati called The National Railroad and Underground Freedom Center?
- Is Bill Cosby the person/face to raise the kind of dough needed to pull it off?
- Do you think it would better serve the black nation as a whole, if people like Bill Cosby, L. Douglas Wilder and others (of like prominence) raised money to fund economic and educational centers for black people to better themselves, their families and their respective communities?
- Do you beleive this national museum, if built, will tell the REAL story of BLACK slavery in America any better than the white appeasing shack we have here in Cincinnati?
- Or will it be just another: The white man WAS and IS the black man's savior so shut the hell up 'bout any and all ongoing and future talks regarding that reparations crap and move on Knee-grows type deal?
These are just a few questions I'm throwing out to you, the faithful readers of this blog to ponder over then comment on.
Well, come on what do you think?
BLACK POWER!!!
I'll give $8 toward Cosby's rehabilitation for sexual addiction. The testimonials of 5 women that he doped and molested them would be more than enough for anyone that doesn't have the $$$ he has. But again, folks, it's about class. Hell, Michael Jackson is home growing little boys to keep a fresh crop to molest. Prince Michael's not even related to him and noboby knows where he got Baby Blanket. Probably bought him off the street. But that's America-be you black or white if you got the do-re-mi, you've got a blank check. Cosby's a self righteous asshole dupe and spokesman for the corrupt American system.
ReplyDelete"How do you feel about that struggling money sucking white appeaser we have right here in Cincinnati called The National Railroad and Underground Freedom Center?"
ReplyDeleteThat seems like a loaded question
"Jimmy Carter" or whomever you are, You WILL NOT get that Dale Mallory bullshit off over here! You will be DELETED every time. OK?
ReplyDeleteOK!
Yeh, BLACK POWER, EVERY HOUR!
/from CNN -- Here's what your black African "kings" do to women and children. Africa? We all better be glad we got the hell out of the sewer, by whatever means necessary.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a fairy tale
There are some things you see, some things you hear that simply are unspeakable. In a hospital in the eastern Congo city of Goma, we met a little girl. She never said a word to us, she could barely look us in the eyes. When she did, her eyes told the story.
"She never says anything to men," one of the hospital counselors explained, and then she told us why.
The little girl was raped. Gang-raped. It was allegedly done by soldiers engaged in a complicated regional war that has claimed millions of lives. The war officially ended in 2003, but outbreaks of violence and rape continue. The girl is now five years old. She was raped when she was three.
I wish I could tell you this was an extraordinary event. I wish I could tell you she was the only child attacked. The hospital was full of rape victims, and the doctor had seen other small children victimized.
Because the rapes are so violent, women often develop fistulas -- ruptures in their vaginas or rectums that make it impossible to control bodily functions. A charity called Heal Africa was running this hospital, and the doctor said he was able to fix about 70-80 percent of the fistula cases, but of course some wounds never heal.
Heal Africa has opened up a residence for women with fistulas that can't be surgically fixed, at least not here in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The women can't go home. Often they've been rejected by their husbands because they were raped. The stigma here is strong.
I met a woman named Angela. I can't stop thinking about her. She was raped by three men in front of her children. Afterwards they shot her, and she says they burned her baby girl. The girl is four now and has a massive scar all over her chest.
Angela's fistula was fixed, but her arm remains injured from the gunshot. Pscyhologically she's still devastated. To make matters worse, her husband kicked her out of the house.
"He heard I was raped," she said whispering. "And he just said, 'Go on your own, I don't need you anymore. If we lived together, you now might have HIV so you might infect me.'"
I didn't ask Angela her HIV status. I didn't think it was any of my business. Perhaps I should have asked, but she didn't volunteer it, and I felt like I'd already asked her too much.
The funding for the Heal Africa house comes from a non-governmental organization. They say their funding ends in April. It's not clear what will happen then.
"The only thing I need is some land so I can build a house," Angela said to me before I left. "I might die and I want my kids to have that castle. I'm hoping for a miracle."
There aren't many miracles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is not a fairy tale, some stories don't have happy endings. Here the men who rape with impunity are rarely brought to justice. Women like Angela are expected to simply bear the pain.
If you would like to help Heal Africa in the work they are doing, you can log onto their Web site.
Posted By Anderson Cooper: 12:14 PM ET
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