Why isn't there anybody in the US lobbying for a slavery museum? It's kind of weird considering how many black people there are.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 17, 2007, at 9:11 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
>
> > "Why is there a Holocaust museum in DC and no
> slavery museum?"
> >
> > For the same reason that the Foreign Office
> agitated against the
> > colour bar
> > in the US forces stationed in Britain while
> defending it in the
> > colonies.
>
> Yup of course. But I was surprised when I visited
> Munich five or six
> years ago that there's a memorial to the victims of
> National
> Socialism pretty much at the spot the early Nazi
> party had its
> meetings and rallies.
>
> Doug
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