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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:34:00 EST
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- Subject: Re: Media/communicatioons
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- Jon,
-
- Things started to get better, but thanks to the Regan-Bush administration
- virtually every gain was reversed.
-
- Thurgood Marshall played a major role in helping to restructure the society
- yet most of his lifes work was undone.
-
- Did you know that during the regan bush error (I use that word intentionally)
- that college enrollment of African Americans declined by 22%? Did you
- notice how during the Regan bush error, that there was a rather successful
- attempt at showing how white males suffered from affirmative actions programs?
- (I'm not going to get into a discussion about quotas. I have lots of friends
- that are underemployed.) In this society there has always been affirmative
- action for white males. Affirmative action for people of color was 1) an
- addmission that the society was racist to the core, and the 2) some form of
- redress was required to give African Americans access to what the society
- offers. During the regan-bush error, it seems as if this was all forgotten.
-
- In my mind the period which we've just gone through has done little for the
- plight of women, people of color, gays, children, the environment, latin
- america, africa or anything that white males cannot see themselves directly
- benefitting from. Think about it.
-
- And the media just uncritically sat by while all this happened.
-
- If information does not liberate people, it is useless. The information
- that is delivered to us on a daily basis does not liberate us. It does little
- to improve the quality of our lives and our environment.
-
- Again I challenge the American people, who can watch a president go to an
- enviromental summit and reject all the major proposals to save the planet.
- It seems to me that this should have caused us all to jump out of our skin.
-
- The problems we face accross cultures and everywhere else have a lot to
- do with the quality of the information that we receive. In addition it has
- alot to do with the consciousness that we the people have formed.
-
- At the prompting of some of my instructors, I recently started to think
- about the legacy of "enlightmentment style thinking" and the problems
- it creates for us. First chance I get I'll put something on here for us to
- discuss.
-
- Peace,
-
-
- Phil
-