Hello List, First off, congratulations to Don Samuels!!!
Now, about that picture. I am with Jordan and Becky on this as well. I would like to understand this: Compare - We could not get an Anti-War Resolution signed because the council did not know if their constituents really wanted that done. Okay. Now the County Chair comes along and decides that the picture needs to be taken down. Well does he have a constituent consensus on that or his it simply a personal problem? I am guessing the latter, and he needs to just get over it!!!! His explanation just does not cut it. This Black woman is pissed!!!! Isn't it enough that our history books already do not reflect history accurately? Isn't it enough that we have to endure White America patronizing us every February with all the ads in our newspaper and on television? Then it's back to "Minnesota Nice business as usual" come March 1st. It is beyond me why my people even accept this once a year gig. Do some of you changes spots (color) for the remaining 11 months of the year? So much of what our ancestors have worked and fought so hard for is being done away with, and the attitudes of some of their descendants are helping to bring that about. I don't wish to receive any emails asking if I am an angry Black woman either. I am not angry with white people nor do I blame all white people. I simply do not play stupid mind games with them, and Opat is playing one. And, he is doing it during a time when White people profess to care so much about us. Maybe he does not believe in Black History Month any more than I do. If that is in fact true, I commend him on refusing to be Minnesota Nice and being real instead. There are plenty pictures we have hanging around the city and statues that I don't care to look at, but they have historical value and are there for a reason. Did we ask them to be taken down? If there is not some sort of public ire raised in regard to this attempted submersion of our history, especially by my own folks, it will take more than one of Spike Lee's movies to sound the "Wake Up" call. Pamela Taylor (A Free Black Woman for all seasons blowing her trumpet in Tampa) 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
