The bus has been on display at the Ford Museum in Detroit for nearly twenty years. Just be careful driving through that neighborhood to get there.
Posted on 09/15/2020 5:00:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy in a setting that couldn’t be more incongruous: the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples.
It’s the latest stop for the house in a years-long saga that began when Parks’ niece saved the tiny two-story home from demolition in Detroit after the 2008 financial crisis. She donated it to an American artist who rebuilt it for public display in Germany, and now Italy, after failing to find a permanent resting place for it in the U.S.
As racial tensions seethe across the Atlantic, the exhibition of the home starting Tuesday has taken on fresh relevance. The display is being accompanied by a repeating soundtrack entitled “8:46” and lasting that long. It's the time it took for a Black man, George Floyd, to be killed by white police officers in a May slaying that has fueled the Black Lives Matter movement and protests around the nation in a reckoning with America’s history of slavery and racial injustice.
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How is the home of Rosa Parks of such great interest that it would draw visitors to see it in Europe? Shouldn’t it be the bus that people would want to see? Or maybe Europeans are just curious about early 20th century American homes?
Maybe they should bring back the monarchy and make one of Parks’ (formerly male) transgender descendants queen.
Very good point!
This from "fair and balanced" Fox News.
America is being seriously played, perhaps at the structural level.
“failing to find a permanent resting place for it in the U.S.”
Landfills were full?
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