[AKA_Monet]

As far as funding capital campaigns go...

You can just tell the the "endowment administrators" who are usually friends of the "big money people" are NOT friends with the likes of Oprah or Cosby...

Their contact with the publicists and arrangements for making large sum--non-taxable without question giving blank checks to such a capital improvement project may have NEVER gotten to the desks of Oprah or Cosby.

Or maybe these folks missed the fiscal years of apportionment at Harpo, Inc. or whatever Cosby's foundation is called...

I am actively involved in non-profits and I can see from a mile away that the organization implementing the King memorial campaign has yet to know any African American donors or cannot think of any of them who would be willing to donate for reasons previously stated... Dare I say institutionalized racism...

Or, maybe I am wrong... Some of Oprah's foundation guidelines and board of trustees/directors may have just place the King memorial adverstisements for the capital improvement project into the "round file"... So that's why Oprah failed to make a contribution.

But if that were the case, then it sounds like a set up to me to embarass African Americans with philanthropic capability to honor a very famous contributor to the culture of America... Meaning, let these caucasian folks prop money up first because we are beginning the "white-washing" and "deconvoluting" of MLK so that he is acceptable to "Amerikkklan" society for history books...

But that's just my opinion...