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Kronprinz
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Posted on Monday, October 22, 2007 - 11:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Get the federal government to approve The Rosa Parks National Park. Paterson could teach Detroit something

http://www.usatoday.com/news/n ation/2007-10-21-landmarks_N.h tm?csp=1
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Bearinabox
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 12:08 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm not sure I see your point. Detroit has more concentrated, natural greenspace than it knows what to do with (Belle Isle, Rouge Park and Palmer Park spring immediately to mind). It'd be nice if we had 77-foot waterfalls, but there isn't a whole lot we can do about that. Am I missing something?
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Kronprinz
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 12:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Your missing the fact that it could be turned over to the federal government, leaving Detroit with monies to spend elsewhere. And, look at the economic development that it has spawned in Denver and other places. The Rosa Parks angle alone would generate interest in the minds of many people who otherwise wouldn't visit Detroit.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 12:50 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I agree that it would be nice if the federal government would maintain our parks for us, but why would they agree to do it? From the article, it sounds like the national park designation in Paterson is because the falls are the second-largest east of the Mississippi. I can't think of a natural feature of comparable significance in Detroit. The Denver part of the article didn't talk about national parks at all, just about a greenway project being undertaken at the local level.
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Kronprinz
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 1:12 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The greenway project in Denver is a federal project. As to the lack of a comparable feature in Detroit, that's where the Rosa Parks angle fits in. Detroit could market itself as the national leader in African American advancement, and that would warrant a National Park for African American studies, or culture, or whatever. Think of a Washington Mall type project but with monuments to Rosa Parks, or Harriet Tubman for example. All paid for by the federal government but all benefiting Detroiters.
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Bvos
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 1:23 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The National Parks Service already puts a considerable amount of money into the Automotive National Heritage Districts in Detroit, Ypsilanti, Flint and Lansing.
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Danindc
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 1:24 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Unfortunately, the NPS is way underfunded as it is.
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Gistok
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 1:48 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Doesn't there have to be some special or unique "natural feature" for a park to even be considered being added as a National Park?

It don't think that merely a waterfront site, playscape, trees, paths or fountains will cut the mustard, no matter what the park name it receives...

Even Mackinaw Island was decommissioned as the nations 2nd oldest National Park.
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Kronprinz
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 2:01 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Gettysburg isn't a natural feature, something important happened there. Detroit could make the case that something important happened in Detroit, important to the millions of African Americans throughout the United States
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Irish_mafia
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 7:30 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I've been to Patterson. What we could learn from them is how to duck when a gun is pointed at you...and we already know that.
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Ndavies
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 10:37 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think getting the entire Detroit river designated as a national heritage river is a much better project than a small national park. The river was designated as such by both the US and Canada.

I think this designation will draw far more federal money into Detroit and the region than the little park in NJ will ever draw.

It has already drawn money for improvements on Belle Isle, the Detroit riverwalk and the purchase and maintenance of the humbug marsh in Gibralter.

http://www.mac-web.org/Project s/AHR.htm
http://www.cooperativeconserva tionamerica.org/viewproject.as p?pid=643
http://www.epa.gov/rivers/98ri vers/detroit.html
http://www.tellusnews.com/ahr/ home.shtml
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Upinottawa
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 10:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

cough...underground railroad...cough....
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Detroitrulez
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 1:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

cough....National Underground Freedom Center...Cincinnati...cough... ..
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Susanarosa
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 2:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Anyone been to the Tuskegee NHS lately?

Last time I was there it was a double wide trailer in the middle of the airfield.

I'd say they need to focus on dumping money into what they have right now instead of what they could have in the future.
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Iheartthed
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 2:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If historical sentiments were gonna save Detroit then "it would be like Paris right now".
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Thejesus
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 2:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Detroit could make the case that something important happened in Detroit, important to the millions of African Americans throughout the United States"

To what are you referring?
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1953
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 4:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

No more stuff named for Rosa Parks.

Please.
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Thejesus
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 4:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"No more stuff named for Rosa Parks."

I second this.

If you want to stick to naming stuff only after blacks, not only does she have enough stuff named after her already, but there are plenty of better choices.

Compare what she did to what someone like Charles Drew did and see if you can tell me with a straight face that you honestly think her contribution to society was more significant or more difficult to achieve.
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Lilpup
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 9:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

except we tear down stuff on National registries...
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321brian
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 10:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Aren't national parks supposed to be named after geographical features of an area?

Stop naming things after people. Period!

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