Gregory: Like all the critics of NRP, you too fail to respond with practical suggestions. You merely fault those who differ with you and paint them as naive or indifferent to inclusiveness. But you haven't any proof of that at all. There IS no obligation to do "street-level" work to herd the unrepresented into meetings. Or are you doing it? A lot of critics fail to do what they criticize others for not doing.
As I pointed out to Pamela, people like Rosa Parks didn't wait for some kindly white folk to give her her rights. She just made up her mind one day she was going to get them. Same with the lady who forced the furor over women playing at Augusta. Imagine if someone had said that America would have no civil rights until someone went to Patrick Henry's house and asked him what England should do. But Patrick Henry didn't need that. And any outgroup now excluded will have to be more like Patrick Henry and less like the NRP critics. -------------- Jim Mork--Cooper "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out." Gen. William T. Sherman (1864) Letter to the Mayor of Atlanta. Get your free Web-based E-mail at http://www.startribune.com/stribmail TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
