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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sometimes it's good to read one that's been around
a while and has stood the test of time. For a really fine book on Black
History I recommend Lerone Bennett Jr., <STRONG>Before the
Mayflower. </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have <STRONG>Gift from the Sea, </STRONG>by Ann
Morrow Lindberg to reread this week. I read it for a class years ago, but
that just isn't the same as reading it because one thinks it would be good the
second time around. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue </FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com
href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">'keely emerinemix'</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:10
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Black History
Month</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank you for
reminding us, keely, and very well stated.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I would also like to
recommend a book, a more contemporary look at Black America, a book that I am
currently reading for the umpteenth time . . .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“Soul on Ice” by
Eldridge Cleaver<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I realize that this
book may lack the “good ‘ol boy” appeal of such local publications as “Black
and Tan”. But, like “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the autobiography of
Frederick Douglass, it reflects the truth from a person that lived
it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I do strongly urge
our fellow Visionaires to indulge and commit themselves to read these books
and dare to reflect on what life must have been like for these Americans,
because as Gil Scott-Heron so appropriately emphasized . .
.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“The Revolution Will
Not Be Televised”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Poetry/Revolution.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Poetry/Revolution.mp3</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Seeya round town, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<BR><BR>Tom
Hansen<BR><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>,
<st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place><BR><BR>******************************************<BR><BR>"People
walking up to you<BR>Singing glory hallelujah<BR>And they're trying to sock it
to you<BR>In the name of the Lord."<BR><BR>- Joe South (from "Games People
Play")<BR><BR>******************************************</SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>keely emerinemix<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:14
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Black History
Month</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><BR>Visionaires,<BR><BR>Over
Christmas, I was wandering through Barnes & Noble when I saw a copy of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," which I had never read. I bought it, thinking that
it might come in handy if I ever found myself in the company of people who
believe that slavery was, on the whole, a pretty good deal for the slaves and
a conductor of virtue for slaveholders. Just in case.<BR><BR>I realized
last night that February is Black History Month -- as if all of
African-American history could or should be crammed into a single month,
although I suppose it gets it out of the way for the Anglo-American History
devotees. But it occurred to me that much of what I was reading spoke
not only to the obvious theme of slavery, but also to the issue of justice and
charity overall, and justice and charity to undocumented immigrants in
particular. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has taken some knocks from enlightened,
20-th and 21st-century readers offended by Harriet Beecher Stowe's rendering
of slave dialect, as well as the seeming passivity of Uncle Tom, a Christian
slave sold under dreadful circumstances to a slave trader who muses early on
in the book that someday, he'll settle his accounts with the Good Lord --
after he concludes his man-stealing business. Nonetheless, and I say
this as someone who has seriously studied Black history for decades, this book
has had an undeniably positive effect on American history and is, even today,
a blistering argument against those who would revere the "harmonious
existence" of slaves and Christian patriarchs in the antebellum
South.<BR><BR>I'll be offering some quotes and perspectives from the book here
on Vision, and I also have a proposal for Douglas Wilson and his elders and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Logos</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> board
members. I will donate 25 copies of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Logos School
to aid them in what I'm sure is their goal of a proper, true, and
comprehensive teaching of American history. I will also gift Douglas
Wilson with the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, a compendium of
correspondence from free and enslaved Black women in the South called "We Are
Your Sisters," and a book chronicling the evangelical Quaker beginnings of the
abolitionist and other social reform movements in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
"Mothers of Feminism" by Margaret Hope Bacon.<BR><BR>Because I don't for a
moment believe that our paleo-Confederate local pastor can seriously argue
that his Christian witness and fidelity to the Gospel is enhanced by his
pro-slavery testimony and affiliation with The League of The South, I invite
him in all sincerity to avail himself of my offer. I ask only that he
respond, and respond publicly on Vision 2020, regardless of the content of
that response or not.<BR><I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR>"I will take
the measuring line of justice and the plumb line of righteousness to check the
foundation wall you have built. Your refuge looks strong, but since it
is made of lies, a hailstorm will knock it down. Since it is made of
deception, the enemy will come like a flood to sweep it away . . .
" </SPAN></I> Isaiah 28:17<BR><BR>Indeed, to quote Pastor Rob Bell, a
Gospel that is not good news for everyone isn't good news for
anyone.<BR><BR>Keely<BR><BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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