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Newest Michigan museum showcases racist artifacts...ok, which room has the Farakahn artifacts?
YahooNews ^ | 04/20/12 | Mike Householder

Posted on 04/20/2012 7:56:26 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque — a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense that it makes visitors cringe. That's the idea behind the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, which says it has amassed the nation's largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era, from Reconstruction until the civil rights movement, and beyond. The museum in a gleaming new exhibit hall at Ferris State University "is all about teaching, not a shrine to racism," said David Pilgrim, the founder and curator who started building the collection as a teenager.

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An entire building that showcases racism?...Someones got to much time on their hands. Why not build a museum of why you hate America?
1 posted on 04/20/2012 7:56:30 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Practice victimology.
It’s easier than getting a job.


2 posted on 04/20/2012 7:58:10 AM PDT by american_ranger
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Jim Crow laws.

Laws against blacks passed by Democrats.


3 posted on 04/20/2012 7:59:30 AM PDT by american_ranger
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia?....WTF


4 posted on 04/20/2012 7:59:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
Think I'll pass on this one.

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5 posted on 04/20/2012 8:11:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The “African-American” segment of our population(about 13%) has done a commendable job of daily proving their African hertigae and roots—tribalism, savagery and violence. Either they step up to the plate as AMERICANS, or go back to their ancestral roots and start their own country.


6 posted on 04/20/2012 8:14:14 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: american_ranger

Well, the liberal view is that the southern Democrats who passed Jim Crow laws were out of the mainstream of the Democrat party.

And then the liberals talk about how Strom Thurmond and other old southern Democrats became Republicans in big numbers after the civil rights movement. In the liberal mind, this proves that they weren’t really good Democrats to start with.


7 posted on 04/20/2012 8:16:41 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Anybody want to go visit this museum? I wonder how many visitors they will have?


8 posted on 04/20/2012 8:18:53 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They’ll make all their money on public school visits.


9 posted on 04/20/2012 8:21:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The public school kids will be forced to take field trips to this museum.


10 posted on 04/20/2012 8:23:34 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I have come to the inevitable conclusion that there are far worse things in the world than racism...but try telling that to a liberal racist!


11 posted on 04/20/2012 8:25:42 AM PDT by equaviator
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To: AppyPappy

Exactly!...It will be required for every public school kid to go to within a thousand miles...


12 posted on 04/20/2012 8:27:39 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Definitely not at the top of my “What to do in Michigan” list.
If I would ever get there it would be to see how many lakes I could hit in two weeks with my fishing boat.


13 posted on 04/20/2012 8:31:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I want to see the mummy of Bill Clinton’s real father, Byrd’s hood and robe and Woodrow Wilson’s diary.


14 posted on 04/20/2012 8:31:44 AM PDT by februus
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I have come to the inevitable conclusion that there are far worse things in the world than racism.

Forced diversity is one of those things.

People are often shocked when I say that a business should be able to refuse service based on race, sex religion etc. The simple fact is that most businesses that imposed such policies would fail because of them and even if they thrived, who cares? Others would open businesses that catered to the customers banned from other places.

Our Michigan ban on smoking in bars is a beautiful example of how wrong it is. Instead of letting bar owners decide whether to cater to one clientele or another they forced all bar owners to ban something as common as drinking in their establishments.
15 posted on 04/20/2012 8:38:55 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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If I would ever get there it would be to see how many lakes I could hit in two weeks with my fishing boat.

You should write to our governor and tell him that. Instead we waste millions on the "Pure Michigan" campaign to tell people about golf courses, resorts and museums. Out door type recreational things are the primary tourist draw to Michigan.
16 posted on 04/20/2012 8:44:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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“Forced diversity is one of those things.”

If you mean multi-culturalism and how public education institutions and other liberal meccas espouse it the way they do...and what the reality of it amounts to socially then yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.

Multiculturalism practically guarantees that ethnicity and race are first and foremost in the minds of those who willingly participate. It’s racism but not in classic sense.

As somebody who doesn’t willingly “participate”, I’m labeled a racist and a hater of people different than me by people who don’t care to look beyond the color of my skin. They say, “Don’t hate, participate”.

I hate it when they do that.


17 posted on 04/20/2012 8:54:27 AM PDT by equaviator
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Which room showcases the KKK and the Democrat party that started it?


18 posted on 04/20/2012 8:55:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Save their gas and just have them watch the closing credits of Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled.”


19 posted on 04/20/2012 8:56:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I don’t know how large the “Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia” is, but if the knucklehead founder wants to broaden his scope to cover racism in general, he will have to have multiple wings to cover the racism coming from “Rev.” Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Eric Holder, Cynthia McKinney, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, most of the rest of the Congressional Black Caucus, “Rev.” Al Sharpton, “Rev.” Jessee Jackson, New Black Panthers, blacks who admit they will vote for Zero in numbers approaching 95% simply because he’s black, National Negro College Fund, BET, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

How ‘bout getting back to me on that, David Pilgrim?


20 posted on 04/20/2012 8:58:48 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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