This is my last message. It is important that you have an opportunity to
express your opinions and I mine. This gives others an opportunity to make
their own judgement.
I tutor kids in Milwaukee and Madison in the areas of phonics, math, and
science. And, I see in a few minutes good progress. The progress of the
kids is my reward.
I have gone to meetings for the past thirty-five years. And, I have been
unable to convince the inconvincible. And, I have been unable to change
the immutable.
Since you chose to attend meeting after meeting after meeting with
tricksters, God help you. Been there! Done that!
So, I have the choice of going to sham meetings, which drain me, or I have
a choice of tutoring, which I enjoy and which rejuvenates me.
You, yourself said the mayor might not do anything. So, what's it all
about Alfie?
At 01:24 PM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>These are questions you were not there to ask. As I said before, the Mayor
>was reviewing the information from her last meeting and outlining what she
>planned to do (sensitivity training/developing a system of info tracking to
>address racial profiling). Since you are in the "fight", why did you not
>share your valuable input. It is very easy for people to put down efforts
>for improvement, while it is much more difficult come up with workable
>solutions.
>
>Of course there is racial profiling, but surely you are not suggesting every
>time a person of color gets detained it is solely based on their race.
>While attending college, I lived in a low income/high crime area (many of
>whose residence happened to be of color) and I know FIRST HAND there was
>more crime and violence in this neighborhood. I appreciated the extra
>police in the neighborhood, because I felt safer. So while I believe that
>there is racial profiling, I also believe that police are justified to be
>more cautious in high crime areas.
>
>The Mayor's report will not stop racial profiling and perhaps her plan will
>not even stop one incident of racial profiling, but without the valuable
>input of its victims, how can we ever hope to stop it. I can tell you one
>thing, complaining...without offering valid suggestions of change will never
>stop it.
>
>-Sam
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have
freed thousands more. -- Harriet Tubman
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Nathaniel Harwell
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