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- From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Jack's Racist Nonsense (was Re: Social Democracy)
- Message-ID: <38882@hoptoad.uucp>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 14:16:31 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.202820.6956@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Nov7.034051.13286@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov7.112741.13654@macc.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
- Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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- In article <1992Nov7.112741.13654@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >
- >About all I can manage is to be a kind of cheerleader and
- >amateur historian. I don't know if it does any good at all,
- >apart from the fact that once in a while people tell me it
- >does. Now and then somebody I find pretty hateful denounces
- >me, which signals at least a little success, I guess.
-
- That's all that anybody can do. (Truncheons and teargas may make
- for warm memories of `being there', but we don't have the
- civil rights fights or the no-on-Viet-Nam fights to do any more.)
-
- We can't leave it to the not-amateur historians -- they are
- all writing for other historians, and very rarely do they
- get to touch the popular media. And they popular media is
- interested in myth-making, not history.
-
- >
- >--
- >Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin
- >Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
- >Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
- ><> <> <> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <> <> <>
-
-
- --
- Since Ryan White was buried in April 1990, his grave has been vandalized
- *more than* four times.
-
- (this news courtesy Phil Paxton ipwp400@indycms.bitnet)
-
- Laura Creighton
- toad@toad.com
- hoptoad!laura
-