Can’t say I did cartwheels last week when the announcement came that the International Civil Rights Museum will open in 2010, even after I read that a chair where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once sat would be one of the exhibits. Hell, I guess thousands gander every year at Archie Bunker’s chair on display in the Smithsonian.
But now we hear from museum executive director Amelia Parker that downtown Greensboro will be home to much, much more than a museum — it will also be an an International Site of Conscience.
Update: Let me just say this about this: Expect a sneering and calculated tone about Matt Brown’s ACC Hall of Champions –which will honor plenty of old white guys, mind you —– if it takes years and millions of dollars to complete. And based on what I’ve heard from Brown, taxpayers are totally on the hook for that project.
It would be loads of fun, wouldn’t it?
