[Vision2020] Juneteenth

Thu Oct 16 09:11:18 PDT 2008

Sorry, Bev.  I shouldn't have said that anyone who sees Diddy as a spokesman for African Americans is an idiot.  I should have said such a person  "is entirely smug in his prejudices and fears, wrapping them around him like a warm blanket while sipping from the cup of bitterness in front of a fire stoked by hate."  But my arthritis is acting up today, so I went for the shorthand.

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/

> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:50:08 -0700
> From: bevbafus at verizon.net
> To: no.weatherman at gmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Juneteenth
> 
> can we cut out the insults?
> 
> Thank you
> Bev
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of No Weatherman
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:43 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Juneteenth
> 
> 
> That's right. It's a national holiday. We celebrate it every year in
> Moscow and Idaho and the USA.
> 
> It's right there on my calendar but I've never noticed it.
> 
> And you have confirmed my secret suspicions of you.
> 
> You are a racist.
> 
> To call anyone who thinks Diddy speaks for African Americans "an
> idiot" makes you a racist and an oppressor of all those African
> Americans who look up to Diddy as their official peeps and spokesman.
> 
> But now you have me wondering if you think that anyone who thinks
> Bishop Dave Thomas speaks for African Americans is an idiot.
> 
> Ms Mix, do you think Dr. Gier is an idiot?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/16/08, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:
> >
> >  I can imagine why you've never heard of Juneteenth.  It appears that your
> > people have little interest in a celebration of the Emancipation
> > Proclamation, which freed slaves.  I've been to several Juneteenth
> > celebrations wherein you'd not only have been welcomed, but educated.
> >
> > And, for the record, I think P. Diddy is an idiot.  So is anyone who
> thinks
> > he speaks for African Americans.
> >
> > Keely
> > http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:07:57 -0800
> > > From: no.weatherman at gmail.com
> > > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Palin's Poor Record with African Americans
> > >
> > > Dr. Gier,
> > >
> > > I been round long time but I aint never no heard of Juneteenth
> > celebration.
> > >
> > > But I did heard of my homeboy Diddy.
> > >
> > > "Alaska? Alaska? Alaska, Alaska, come on, man. I don't even know if
> > > there's any black people in Alaska. If you really think that we're
> > > going to let you win this election with these, like, crazy decisions
> > > that you're making, November 4th, we have to protect our future
> > > because John McCain is bugging the fuck out, okay? What is the reality
> > > in Alaska? There's not even no crack heads in Alaska, no black people.
> > > There's not even no, like me."
> > >
> > http://www.zimbio.com/P+Diddy/articles/354/What+no+Crackheads+in+Alaska
> > >
> > > He be talkin like Bishop Dave Thomas: "We wasn't even able or allowed
> > > to go into the meetings."
> > >
> > > Give me a break.
> > >
> > > If you want a job then you should ask for it based on your
> > > qualifications to perform, which includes your ability to communicate
> > > effectively, cause I aint never got hired by playin the race card.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/15/08, nickgier at roadrunner.com <nickgier at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> > > > How Sarah Palin Excluded African-Americans in Alaska
> > > > posted by Max Blumenthal on 10/14/2008 @ 01:55am
> > > > The Nation on the Web
> > > >
> > > > On April 29, 2008, 14 leaders of Alaska's black community met with
> Gov.
> > Sarah Palin to voice discontent with her minority hiring record. Palin's
> > response, which was first reported by journalist Earl Ofari Hutchinson,
> only
> > compounded her icy relationship with her African-American constituents.
> > > >
> > > > Gwen Alexander, the president of the African-American Historical
> Society
> > of Alaska, told me that Palin stated defiantly that she had no intention
> to
> > hire any minority staffers. And according to Bishop Dave Thomas, senior
> > pastor of Anchorage-based African-American church Jesus Holy Temple, the
> > Palin administration excluded black business owners from the Alaskan oil
> and
> > gas pipeline board. "We wasn't even able or allowed to go into the
> meetings"
> > to seek contracts for the pipeline, Thomas told me.
> > > >
> > > > Palin further alienated Alaska's black community by becoming the first
> > Alaskan governor in recent memory to not recognize the Juneteenth
> > celebration of the emancipation proclamation. "She doesn't hire any black
> > people, she doesn't have any on her staff, so it's not a surprise that she
> > doesn't support our Juneteenth celebration," Alexander said.
> > > >
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