Brandon: Ending oppression is a valiant effort and one of my personal visions, but I would like to know more of the specifics on how you would do it.
You spoke of one agency, but there have been many, many organizations with ending system oppression as their mission and the oppression still exists. There are and have been people of color not only on the School Board but on the staff of the Minneapolis Public Schools, and in organizations like the Urban League and the NAACP that I know personally and I know them to be: 1) very capable and 2) ideologically believe in ending oppression. I believe you are talking about systems oppression and how would you, one person, purpose to end it, or begin to end it in the Minneapolis Public Schools. Rhetoric is something that we all tire of in political races. I really would liek to see a plan that you are able to show you have the capacity to work if elected to the school board. Privilege, by definition, is something that those that oppress, are totally unaware of their adverse behavior of those without the prvililege. Privilege is one of the largest hurdles systems change activists work to address, because it is very difficult to get, otherwise "very nice" people to understand that their behavior or lack of of activity, is hurting another individual or group of individuals. Again, I would be very interested in the specifics and where you would plan to get the money to address the issues in light of the huge cuts the School District has had to make. Matthea Little Smith Powderhorn Park 9-4 ===== Matthea Little Smith "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand: it never has and it never will." -- Frederick Douglas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
