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[FOTD]

2025 was not well thought out.

The Air and Space Museum and other pet projects served precedent over a Race Riot Memorial to Intolerance. Now, Air and Space cannot get enough volunteers to hold up their side of this deal http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=11&articleID=20080210_1_A22_SixTu36326 Not to elaborate on the arema, the 2025 package has boatloads of cash but no funding for the Greenwood Museum/Memorial? The TulsaWorld editorial by Mike Jones http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectID=213&articleID=20080209_7_G1_Money27278
seems more of a "fund this memorial and get the issue off the table once and for all" attitude despite the brief mention of a “second phase”.

The museum should have been funded in that 2025 minutia and included a teaching tolerance section and a history of north Tulsa honoring those that rose from the riots ashes and memorializing those whose potential was destroyed and cut down by hate and bigotry. And it still should include an attraction in which visitors who come to Tulsa can admire our  attitude today towards minorities as opposed to Tulsa's past intolerant ways of accepting groups like the Ku Klux Klan into the community as well as letting them serve as vigilantes.

There is a right way and a wrong way to do something here, full-scale from the beginning versus what is being proposed currently.

You would not build an arena with just a Pelli facade would you? That ad hoc committee to decide Tulsa's future at LortonWorld does not get it still. No wonder they can't muster up the $1.3 million for a couple of memorial statues. Oklahoma City has the Murrah Memorial and Tulsa's downtown should have a first class John Hope Franklin International Intolerance Center for the Uneducated.

[TheArtist]

I think the Air and Space Museum and Planetarium were, and still are, a higher priority than the Race Riot Memorial.

The 2025 vote is over people, if you didnt get your priorities on it before the vote I am sorry. Next!

[Conan71]

Perhaps Mr. Kaiser's foundation could donate a portion of the money they pulled off the table from the northside parks when the river tax failed for this museum.

[sgrizzle]

As I understand, the race riot memorial is to be a national park. It should have plenty of funding sources. Not to mention tons of things like the library were not on Vision2025, many times the fault of the people wanting to build it, not because of any higher conspiracies.

[TheArtist]

You know, if someone really wanted to get this memorial and stuff built, they would have come on here and asked for peoples help. Asked for ideas on what could be done to get the Historical society to release the final amount of funds needed for the project.

I would have been glad to help in any way I could.

But instead we got someone with an agenda in which they apparently found a way to insert a gripe against 2025, the arena, and the air and space museum of all things. (btw its not uncommon for organizations like the Air and Space museum to ask for volunteers,  Philbrook, Gilcrease, the Historical society, Garden Center, Aquarium, etc. all do)

If he really cared about the funding for the Greenwood Museum/Memorial he would have focused on that, tried to get people to help, and not gone off on some gripe about what "should have been" that isnt going to do any good but would likely turn people off. Thats not the way to get as many people as you can on your side, rally them around a cause and then ask them for help.

I cant believe someone would insert such a worthless gripe into this situation. Its disghusting. This memorial SHOULD be done, griping about 2025 and the Air and Space Museum isnt going to do a danged thing to help. What a petty, bitter little arse.