City leaders approve plan for National Slave Ship Museum

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[TigerClaws]

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - Members of the New Orleans city council approved plans Thursday for a National Slave Ship Museum.

If the proposal wins final approval, the museum will be located at the Celeste Street Wharf in the Lower Garden District.

Supporters say the museum will enhance and perpetuate New Orleans' status as a major cultural hub and destination by recreating the saga of the African Diaspora story of slave trade in the United States along the Mississippi River, via the Port of New Orleans.

The proposed $170 million museum will include a life-size interactive slave ship built inside a new five-story building and a riverfront park with an amphitheater and two replica African villages.

[Gene Eric]

Good. And make sure all the Democrat slave traders are enumerated beside the replicas.

[Rastus]

Space is one cold mfer.

[rawcatslyentist]

Museum? Why not put em to use and send back the convicted criminal recidivists that claim another continent over US citizenship?

[kearnyirish2]

Odd choice of a place to put it, since I’d think that Louisiana had more black slaveowners than other states. Think that will get its own exhibit?

[kearnyirish2]

I was surprised at how small the famine memorial in Boston is, and glad my ancestors grew up and became contributing citizens of this country nonetheless.

Thankfully this country is quickly filling up with people with their own tales of woe who couldn’t care less about an evil institution that ended 150 years ago (and had only been allowed for about 80 years before that in this country); they don’t buy it as justification for the murders and robberies they suffer when they live near the descendants of those slaves.

[dp0622]

Well stated!!

The Irish could have cried about their ill reception. They didn’t. They prospered.
Who will be the voice that wakes up that lost 15 percent of our population? I don’t know.
BTW, didn’t know about the famine memorial. You learn something new every day :)

[kearnyirish2]

Thanks.

The Irish banded together with private clubs, elected leaders and their parishes to network and make a go of it regardless of intolerance regarding their race & religion. One thing I see missing in today’s unassimilated urban populations is a determination to prove their detractors WRONG; as an Irishman I try to live every day as if to prove that every negative stereotype about us Irish is flat-out wrong. I don’t live in a bar, I can hold down a job, and I’m more than just a paycheck to a wife forced to hold things together through my reckless and erratic behavior. I understand where the stereotypes arose (my town had plenty of that type of Irish in decades past), and know that it is a small minority of our tribe.

[wardaddy]

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/no-such-thing-as-no-irish-need-apply-signs-argues-history-professor-211727201-237597051.html

[wardaddy]

Missed your post....

[dp0622]

It's amazing how the stereotypes hold. I'm of Italian descent and live on Staten Island. The south shore is mostly Italian and Irish with Russians and Albanians coming in fast, and Asians. It is a Great place to live.
The north shore, with Obama’s people, is a disaster. Those same neighborhoods used to be beautiful Irish and Italian neighborhoods. What a shame.
There's still some stereotypes from the last generation out here for both our nationalities :). but very few from this generation. The Irish guys I know, one is an accountant, one’s an engineer, and 2 are police.
The days of Whitey Bulger are gone.
But if you DO want to see a great Irish gangster film, State of Grace was AWESOME :)

[Ken H]

Another thing to add to my Bucket* List.

*Replace 'B' with 'F'.

[kearnyirish2]

I’ll check it out if I get a chance; thank you. I think “Jersey Shore” and “The Sopranos” really set back Italians in a negative way with mobster and “guido” stereotypes, and their civic groups (rightfully) railed against them; they didn’t bust their arses for over a century for that. I recall a made-for-TV parody of “Jersey Shore” (Jersey Shore Shark Attack? Think “Sharknado” with Italian characters) that was laughably absurd - when they come upon a blood-spattered boat one thinks it is covered with tomato sauce, which they normally bring with them when they go fishing. IIRC, the “Jersey Shore” cast (who I believe come from NYC/Staten Island) admitted the director had told them to act over-the-top.

There are still plenty of Italians here in north Jersey (including the descendants of those who fled Newark decades ago) and they are completely assimilated; many childhood friends had Italian fathers and Irish mothers. I couldn’t figure that out; it certainly wasn’t for our cooking - who opens an Irish restaurant? Just cook American farm fare and remove all the taste/spices - that is Irish cooking. I hike along the NY/NJ border, and have seen the remains of Lakeville NY, where a lot of Italians worked in iron mines in the early twentieth century; doesn’t fit the stereotype of hoods landing in NYC and delving into the crime world there. Like the Irish, they tolerated the racism and made a better life for the following generations.

When will “Obama’s people” do the same?

[Josa]

But the mooch just told us blacks don’t go to museums

[Josa]

The Irish prospered. The Vietnamese who came here in the 70s became prosperous tax PAYERS too.

[Vision]

“We’ve got a good con going here with this victim thing, let’s institutionalize it.”

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Irish got even: They inflicted the Kennedys on America.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

170 million dollars for something that was only legal for a little over 21 years of our history? Building slave ships in the US was only legal for 7;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves

Going through the list of ship names one will find few US built or operated ones there;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_ship

[VRW Conspirator]

a National Slave Ship Museum.

Always focused on the past.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Problems with the British also added to the impetus for Irish to emigrate, didn’t they?

I’m a sentimental sort I know, but I get tears when I remember the lyrics “Then I spoke to Napper Tandy, and he tuk me by the hand, ‘Must we ask a mother’s welcome of a strange but happy land? Where the power of England’s thralldom never shall be seen, and where in peace we’ll live and die, a wearing of the green.’”

Obviously speaking of America...

The gospel is what made it possible for America and now America has dropped the gospel on the floor. This cannot bode well. A society of mutual blessing is going to morph into one of mutual resentment.

No I am not Irish, I am of mixed Jewish and English background, the English side having rednecks in it.

[kearnyirish2]

Yes, Britain wanted the land for pastures and had to drive the people off (exporting crops from Ireland while the population starved). I can appreciate the English language passed down from the British (passed down to them from Germany/Saxons); in the end they went from dominating the world to playing second fiddle in the EU.

The US has certainly lost its way; now it is a low-rent imitation of European post-Christian liberalism (with high unemployment & taxes, low birthrate, mass immigration, and an entitled population)...