In a message dated 2/6/03 11:36:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > A whole set of 6 dozen or so souvenir postcards of various lynchings is > online at > http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/ > > Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson > > Keith says; This lynching was a despicable hate crime, gleefully committed. I am glad it was grimly and graphically documented. Anyone looking at it on display should suffer; and learn. But all in fair measure in viewing this terribly unfair act. Should a vast number of our Minn. youth be required by their school boards curriculum to visit Mpls.and see this exhibit? I say yes. Can both the curator/presenter of this exhibit, Leola Seals, and the Hennepin County host, Mike Opat, learn from their apparent clash? Can they use their energy, thus generated, to maximize the learning experience for our State's youths, and adults? I believe they can. For Leola Seals, I say that yes, a picture is worth a thousand words. And your thousand-and-one efforts to assemble this gem, and bring this exhibit forward, is beyond simple commendation. I salute you. I only ask, would making this picture the same size as all others; and an additional thousand words teach even more lessons? Especially if some reluctant readers were willing to read the thousand words after viewing the picture? For Mike Opat, I say that yes, the nuts and bolts job of managing the Government Center must seem more, or less, thankless, on any given day. Yet you still show up and take responsibility, and make decisions, most every day. I believe you helped facilitate the exhibition. I believe you were then moved, after hearing, and feeling, the concerns of others, to quickly respond and take reasonable mitigating action. Perhaps you then expected to amicably, and positively, facilitate modest adjustment of the exhibit; to teach a little more, and shock a little less. I humbly offer that I know and respect both of you. I know of excellent work done by each of you for the common good. I anticipate that two sincere individuals will reach an accord, for the sake of the common good, and this wonderful, vital exhibit. I know they can; I hope they will. Keith Reitman NearNorth 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
