Posted on 09/12/2010 4:13:11 PM PDT by bareford101
won't make attendance goal (even after spending more than 9 million dollars to open)
(snip) The museum's annual budget is about $3 million with the money coming from ticket sales, special programs and corporate contributions. The museum also hosts three fundraising events to help with operating funds. No public money is used for daily operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...
I’m gonna suggest a museum of Muslim tolerance and the government will fall all over themselves to give me money.
best “get rich quick” scheme going...
That's only because it's new. It's downhill from here.
“The museum’s centerpiece is the Woolworth’s lunch counter where black college students challenged the whites-only policy in 1960.”
Can I get a cuppa coffee for ten cents, and the turkey dinner with corn bread dressing, that has that greenish colored gravy?
I really resent my money being spent for special interests.... minority of any kind of interests...
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, has the same problems. It is in the hotel where MLK had his sex orgies the night before he was killed. The Federal Government funnels zillions of dollars to keep it open and some days it has as many as ten to twenty visitors.
Why would I travel to visit a museum to learn about how evil white people are? I can get that for free by watching any mainstream TV show or news broadcast.
Ping
Puh-leeze. I have no argument with this "museum" although I doubt it will ever have any strong appeal outside of required "educational" visits. But don't tell me there is no gubbermint funding. I ain't that stupid.
Nice dodge. Is any public money used for any purpose at all?
Skippy Alston pension Ping.
oh yeah, to stuff the pockets of the few who are “in” with the political climate...
I hope the anticipated crown duznt bother to make it to the polls either in a couple months.
Well, a nice old building on the corner of February One Place and South Elm Street got a goldplated renovation. That’s something tangible.
I recall overhearing a conversation in a downtown Greensboro restaurant, Liberty Oak I think, that really cemented the level of deceit going on with that immense featherbed for longtime racial pot-stirrers.
It seems there’s an underground river running beneath downtown, and it undermined the foundation of the Woolworth Building, requiring many more millions to stabilize than anticipated, lol. Not a peep about this from the much better, much more architecturally significant Kress Terrace just a block or two down Elm, with it’s rare Art Nouveau terracotta imbellishments and really nice streamlined Art Deco façade. Milton Kern is white and paid his own money to restore that one though, no demagoguery to benefit the Underground Railroad crowd.
Greensboro has become home over the twenty-two years I’ve lived in the area, I’ve got many friends here, love the history, it’s been good to me businesswise over the years, the last two and a half notwithstanding. But the racial element to politics and the associated graft is absolutely appalling. It sure gives Durham a run for the money.
No one in his right mind would.
I've always gotten a laugh out of the liberals in Buffalo who, bereft of actual economic knowledge, propose an endless stream of museums to boost the local economy.
Here's a letter in today's Buffalo News proposing a transportation museum on the waterfront.
We already have the wonderful Pierce Arrow Museum, and in Orchard Park we have the astonishing Pedaling History Bicycle Museum, which the owner has been trying to move to downtown for years. Combining these two institutions and expanding the idea into a Transportation and Industry Museum for Canal Side would fit perfectly and provide a fascinating educational experience for all ages.
Makes you want to get on Orbitz and book that flight to Buffalo right now, doesn't it?
I think I have found what is offputting (for me) about this museum:
2 Things
A) We already know the struggle of the civil rights activists, and how it led to greater freedom for black BECAUSE WE ARE DAILY/WEEKLY REMINDED ABOUT THIS by the powers that be in the media and education: It is overload.
I appreciate what the civil rights leaders did, but when you are pounded in the head by it daily/weekly it gets “old” and tiring.
2ndly
B) The Price, $10.00 is too much for me to got to this museum (where you already know pretty much 100% of what is going to be in it)- I was recently in Washington, D.C. and already saw a “replica” of the Greensboro lunch counter promently displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
10 Dollars would still be too much for me, even if I still lived in North Carolina.
$10 for adults and children pay too?
I probably wouldn’t even go to this museum if it was FREE. It’s overpriced for what you get unless they serve free food from the lunch counter.
If you build it, they will come.
Or not.
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