You can't build a museum with 50 million?
Joanna
AS: A little more info...
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/faq/details.php?topic=06#01 The Museum cost approximately $168 million to build ($90 million for the building's construction and $78 million for the exhibits).
Began with Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Commission on the Holocaust—1978. Significant funding from federal appropriations.
National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=dc&second=visitor&third=faqs How long did it take to build the museum, and how much did the construction cost? Groundbreaking for construction of the museum was on September 28, 1999. Construction costs were $219 million, $199 million for construction and $20 million for Public Programs. The museum opened to the public on September 21, 2004.
http://www.nmai.si.edu/press/releases/2006-02_fact_sheet_NMAI_DC.pdf Established with an Act of Congress—1989. Most funding from federal appropriations.
U.S. National Slavery Museum http://www.usnationalslaverymuseum.org/pdf/black_voices.pdf
Began with former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder’s trip to Goree Island—1992. "Wilder, who noted that Bill Clinton was vilified for asking for a national apology for slavery, says that the country has a problem in confronting the issue
Wilder says that the financing will come mostly from the private and corporate sector, possibly from the federal government and municipalities, and from private donations." About $50 million in hand; museum has a $200 million price tag (CNN).
aaron
Aaron Shuman wrote:
>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
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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.
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>The left should not be leaving this sort of thing to
>Zionist groups. And if they do, well, then, SSKM.
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>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?
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>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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