The Underground Railroad museum is suffering exactly the fate those of us that were against said it would...if you bother to visit it once...there is no reason to return. The proponents claimed it would be ‘self sufficent’.
Right now those same idiots are begging for millions to keep the doors open. And because of the racial context, even if it closes, the city will NEVER be able to tear it down and rebuild something positive in its place.
Bottom line: Cincinnati is quickly becoming ‘lil detriot’. And it will never recover, just as Detriot never recovered from the riots in the 1960’s.
Houston had it’s own PC revitalization project called “El Mercado del Sol”.
Read the Wikipedia entry for that place. It is unintentionally hilarious in the pains it takes to soft-sell the myriad problems.
They say Americans don’t ‘do’ irony but that hulking, unattractive doorstop parked smack dab in front of the downtown skyline serves as exactly the WRONG kind of reminder about race relations and history. It was and is a sop to all the rabble-rousers. Here’s the delicious irony: the next time this group or that preacher demands some kind of payout or ‘tribute’ even the most cowardly politician can point to the Underground Freedom Center and say ‘sorry but we’ve been down that road before.’