Joanna
Aaron Shuman wrote:
>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>>Campus Zionism in action! -- Yoshie
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>Angelus Novus wrote:
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>Refusing a platform to Holocaust deniers is standard
>Antifascist praxis.
>
>The left should not be leaving this sort of thing to
>Zionist groups. And if they do, well, then, SSKM.
>
>AS: Does this mean that U.S. politicians who deny the
>impact of slavery on contemporary life in the U.S.
>should be denied a platform? How about those who
>insist the U.S. has abolished slavery--even though the
>13th Amendment allows it as punishment for a crime?
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/22/cosby.civil.war.ap/index.html
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>Cosby: Let's all give $8 each to build slavery museum
>POSTED: 10:52 p.m. EDT, September 22, 2006
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>RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Bill Cosby on Friday called
>on each American to contribute $8 to help build a
>national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the
>Civil War.
>
>Cosby, who already has committed $1 million to the
>project, joined Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder on
>Friday in launching a new campaign to raise $100
>million toward the Fredericksburg museum's $200
>million price tag.
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>"The incentive is that they would join in with the
>rest of the United States of America in saying yes, as
>an American, I gave $8 to help build something that
>tells the story," he said in a teleconference with
>Wilder.
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>In a nation of some 300 million people, even a tepid
>response would surpass the $100 million goal, Cosby
>said.
>
>He admitted this kind of campaign "generally fails
>badly."
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>"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 latest attempt at fundraising
>for the U.S. National Slavery Museum, a project in the
>works for more than a decade.
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>Wilder struggled to find a location before settling on
>a site near the Rappahannock River, a region where
>many Civil War battles were fought.
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>For Wilder, $8 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.
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>"The figure 8, in shape, is both of the shackles,
>which is the symbol of slavery," said 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.
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>"If you turn it on its side, it's the symbol of
>infinite freedom," he said.
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>Wilder said the museum has about $50 million on hand.
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