Why has there ben no memorial built to remember the slaves who built this country? Why does Bill Cosby have...

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to solicit donations from people to try and get one built?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/22/cosby.civil.war.ap/index.html


After all, we have a Holocaust Museum in our nation's capitol, for God's sake - and America didn't cause the Holocaust. Why in hell do we allow a museum to be built in honor of the dead (foriegn) ancestors of a sliver of our population to be built, yet have nothing to attest to the true horrors and degradations visited upon the ancestors of our own countrymen? The very people who, with their sweat and suffering, literally built this country? Disgraceful.

And, please, no 'answers' from racists.

To the RETARDS: I've sent money.

To the kim.. oops! DIM bulb: I donate, through my tax dollars, TOO MUCH every year to the Native Americans who returned, in kind, the actions of our ancestors.
"We have a museum in Detroit." Was this museum sanctioned, and funded, by the U.S. government through our tax dollars (as was the 'Holocaust' museum)? Is there any lasting and permanent testament anywhere to the innumerable sufferings our ancestors put the slaves through?
You are an idiot.
Oh, yeah, you shallow-brained racist. I'm not, as you obviously thought, black. I'm as white as they get.

I feel bad for you.

The one thing I forgot to add, is that Detroit is not our capitol. D.C. is, that's where the tourists go, that's where we need a memorial.

Answer 1

I think it's a great idea and didn't know Bill Cosby was soliciting for donations.

A while back I saw an old slave cabin for sale on eBay (seriously) under real estate. I so wish I could have bought it and put it somewhere - what historical value!

I know a number of state museums, etc, have exhibits, but it isn't enough. I thought they were doing something about the underground railroad here in the Midwest. I have some great pictures of the stairwell up to one of the stations.

No, I don't know why there isn't anything national in honor of those that were owned, beaten, overworked, kept illiterate and sold on a whim. Sad.

Answer 2

I think your answer is kind of in your question... America didn't cause the holocaust, and so we can "proudly" build a monument to our part in helping stop it.

But for the simple reason that America and Americans DID cause, perpetuate or ignore the foulness of slavery, we as a nation have a hard time building a monument to point the finger at ourselves and humbly say, "we did that" or "Our ancestors did that".

And to be clear, you are right. There IS no national museum to honor the people of color who helped create this nation. But there are little ones everywhere. Try not to remain upset. People have a very hard time looking in the national mirror and believing that this country could have been so wrong for so long.

Answer 3

We have an Afro-American Museum in Detroit. Also a Holocaust Museum. Slavery and torture manifests itself in many cultures. So, are you also going to donate to the Native American Museum for the trail of tears....then if you don't, do you consider yourself then "racist" by your own accord?>>

Answer 4

Statue of Liberty.

The Statue of Liberty would never have been built had its main advocates not been staunch abolitionists who saw the eradication of slavery as necessary to the realization of the principle of "liberty for all," the project was "not intended entirely as a monument to the end of slavery."

Answer 5

Because they're still exploiting us whether we be Africans, Asians, Latinos or Native Americans.

Answer 6

What do you intend to do to help ?