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Conservatives???? John, I'm not a conservative.
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"In the days before volcanoes were invented, lava had to be hand carried down from the mountains and poured on the sleeping villagers.
This took a great deal of time."
----- Original Message -----
From: John Stafford Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:09 am
Subject: Re: A Must Read Editorial
To: [log in to unmask]
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> AAM ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
>
> Saturday, November 14, 6:30 pm
>
> GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER
>
> 149 Waubesa St. Madison
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> http://www.africanassociation.org
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>
> Conservatives are always wont to point at other scenes in declaring
> their innocence, but I repeat: Violent racists find union and embrace
> under the conservative umbrella. Until the conservatives get rid of
> this vehement, violent base, let them be judged as being racist.
>
> John
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Vera Crowell wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >There is far more damage done to people of color and their plans &
> purposes by the hidden racism in those we least suspect of harboring
> racist tendencies.
> >
> >I recently read a review of a study showing that white democrats were
> more likely to move their children out of a district due to race than
> were white republicans. Look at white flight here in Dane county; it's
> not just conservative Republicans taking their children out of Madison
> schools.
> >
> >I believe that misplaced sense of where the 'danger' is coming from
> has helped our problems with race continue almost unabated.
> >
> >That's analogous to being extremely concerned about bats, chipmonks,
> rabbits, & voles while completely ignoring the termites destroying
> your home from the inside.
> >
> >May I suggest that you read 'Silent Racism' by Barbara Trepagnier.
> This is the issue we need to be most concerned with. It is this that
> contributes heavily to the institutional racism we all have to deal with.
> >
> >For example, I have read studies about students of color and their
> experiences with racism on white, liberal campuses. Where's the racism
> coming from? The hidden paternalistic type of racism is still racism,
> still damaging, and still wrong.
> >
> >www.silentracism.com
> >
> >Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >On Sep 21, 2009, at 5:56 PM, John Stafford Anderson
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
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> >>
> >> AAM ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
> >>
> >> Saturday, November 14, 6:30 pm
> >>
> >> GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER
> >>
> >> 149 Waubesa St. Madison
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> >> http://www.africanassociation.org
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> >>
> >>Violent racists find union and embrace under the conservative
> umbrella. Until the conservatives get rid of this vehement, violent
> base, let them be judged as being racist.
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>
> >>On Sep 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>That's an excellent letter though I am tired of the assumption that
> only conservative whites exhibit racist tendencies...that's simply not
> true.
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: [log in to unmask]
> >>>Date: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:27 pm
> >>>Subject: Fwd: FW: A Must Read Editorial
> >>>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>********************************************************
> >>>>
> >>>> AAM ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
> >>>>
> >>>> Saturday, November 14, 6:30 pm
> >>>>
> >>>> GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER
> >>>>
> >>>> 149 Waubesa St. Madison
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.africanassociation.org
> >>>>
> >>>>********************************************************
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>____________________________________
> >>>>From: Richardllowe
> >>>>To: Richardllowe
> >>>>Sent: 9/21/2009 4:25:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time
> >>>>Subj: Fwd: FW: A Must Read Editorial
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>____________________________________
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Subject: FW: A Must Read Editorial
> >>>>Importance: High
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>PLEASE READ AND SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Calm, Peace, UNDERSTANDING and discretion..
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>LONG BUT WORTH READING
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Read what a White Reporter wrote in a Georgia Newspaper (YESS)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State
> >>>>College
> >>>>in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon Telegraph.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?
> >>>>
> >>>>For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its
> race
> >>>>
> >>>>problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people
> >>>>have been
> >>>>impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for
> >>>>their
> >>>>difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African
> >>>>Americans
> >>>>finally going to get over it?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Now I want to ask:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>"When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous
> >>>>obsession
> >>>>with skin color?
> >>>>Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats,
> >>>>Crimes"
> >>>>should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in
> "
> >>>>Birmingham
> >>>>" Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of
> >>>>comments
> >>>>about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to
> >>>>John and
> >>>>Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone
> decided to
> >>>>do
> >>>>more than "talk the talk."
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are
> >>>>once
> >>>>again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>We white people have controlled political life in the disunited
> >>>>colonies
> >>>>and United States for some 400 years on this continent.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even
> >>>>
> >>>>during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked
> >>>>most of his
> >>>>agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I
> >>>>read any
> >>>>headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations
> >>>>of
> >>>>presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize
> >>>>them, yes.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on
> >>>>their
> >>>>heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the
> >>>>perpetrator
> >>>>was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody
> >>>>Foster.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the
> >>>>sixties
> >>>>again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we've
> >>>>proven
> >>>>what conservatives are always saying -- that in America anything
> is
> >>>>possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California
> >>>>are
> >>>>talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation,
> >>>>much
> >>>>less the whole world, look like us?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over
> this
> >>>>
> >>>>hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that
> >>>>white
> >>>>skin makes us superior?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about
> >>>>
> >>>>being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at
> the
> >>>>head
> >>>>of the line merely because of our white skin?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers
> >>>>
> >>>>when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our
> >>>>white-only
> >>>>conversations?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start
> >>>>making
> >>>>racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks
> >>>>exercise
> >>>>personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves
> >>>>enough to
> >>>>edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President
> >>>>of
> >>>>the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they
> do?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>How long before we start "living out the true meaning" of our creeds,
> >>>>both
> >>>>civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and
> >>>>that
> >>>>"red and yellow, black and white" all are precious in God's sight?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would
> ever
> >>>>
> >>>>elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't believe
> >>>>I'll live
> >>>>long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>But here's my three-point plan:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that
> >>>>Black
> >>>>Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret Service)
> >>>>will
> >>>>protect him and his family from us white people.
> >>>>
> >>>>Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear
> >>>>
> >>>>saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature
> >>>>about
> >>>>President Obama.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise
> >>>>the
> >>>>world once again, when white people can "in spirit and in truth"
> >>>>sing
> >>>>of our damnable color prejudice,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>"We HAVE overcome."
> >>>>**************************************
> >>>>It takes a Village to protect our President!!!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>____________________________________
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