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And cream pies.
John
On Mar 5, 2009, at 6:07 PM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:
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> Wow, John...thrown eggs? Afraid of different ideas, are we?
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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."
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Stafford Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009 5:25 pm
> Subject: Re: Students walk out of King's abortion speech
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> They should have thrown eggs at her, too. What a devious and
>> disgusting way to get attention. Why must people be duped into
>> attending a lecture and then be fed a bunch of lies?
>>
>> King and her sponsoring organization are just as despicable and
>> devious as the UW-Madison College Republicans and the woman they are
>>
>> bringing to campus this evening, Star Parker. Parker is a black
>> female former welfare-recipient who now goes around assuaging fiscal
>>
>> conservative racism by rendering her former self as the "Queen of
>> Welfare Fraud." On the talk circuit, she comforts racist insinuation
>>
>> by fulfilling cinematic fantasies about pimps, whores, enslavement,
>> drug addiction, and any other topic that racists feel need further
>> blackening and vilification. The event was billed as a "Belated
>> Black
>>
>> History Month event!" (exclamation, theirs).
>>
>> From "got milk" to "sex in the city," and now "diversity" to "MLK"
>> and "black history month:" there is a disingenuous pattern of
>> commandeering and co-opting slogans, titles, and now, sadly, people,
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>> to fit any vicious conservative agendas.
>>
>> John
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>> On Mar 5, 2009, at 3:07 PM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:
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>>> http://media.www.cm-life.com/media/storage/paper906/news/2009/03/04/News/Students.Walk.Out.Of.Kings.Abortion.Speech-3658384.shtml
>>>
>>> From the article: "Some students at Alveda King's speech Tuesday
>>> night did not expect a strictly literal interpretation of the
>>> advertised "life affirming choices" speech.
>>>
>>> The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King spoke out strongly against
>>> abortion at her "Can the Dream Survive?" presentation in Warriner
>>> Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Some students were surprised to learn
>>> that was the topic of her lecture. Several of the about 650-person
>>
>>> audience walked out.
>>>
>>> "I felt a little misled personally," said Flint senior Detrone
>>> Turner, who said he thought the speech was going to be about
>>> increasing diversity.
>>>
>>> Sponsored by The Student Budget Allocation Committee, The Office for
>>
>>> Institutional Diversity and Students For Life, King presented a
>>> PowerPoint called "Can the Dream Survive If the Kids Are Dead?""
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