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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.<br><br>Keely<br>http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/<br><br><br>> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:50:08 -0700<br>> From: bevbafus@verizon.net<br>> To: no.weatherman@gmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Juneteenth<br>> <br>> can we cut out the insults?<br>> <br>> Thank you<br>> Bev<br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com<br>> [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]On Behalf Of No Weatherman<br>> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:43 AM<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Juneteenth<br>> <br>> <br>> That's right. It's a national holiday. We celebrate it every year in<br>> Moscow and Idaho and the USA.<br>> <br>> It's right there on my calendar but I've never noticed it.<br>> <br>> And you have confirmed my secret suspicions of you.<br>> <br>> You are a racist.<br>> <br>> To call anyone who thinks Diddy speaks for African Americans "an<br>> idiot" makes you a racist and an oppressor of all those African<br>> Americans who look up to Diddy as their official peeps and spokesman.<br>> <br>> But now you have me wondering if you think that anyone who thinks<br>> Bishop Dave Thomas speaks for African Americans is an idiot.<br>> <br>> Ms Mix, do you think Dr. Gier is an idiot?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> On 10/16/08, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1@msn.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > I can imagine why you've never heard of Juneteenth. It appears that your<br>> > people have little interest in a celebration of the Emancipation<br>> > Proclamation, which freed slaves. I've been to several Juneteenth<br>> > celebrations wherein you'd not only have been welcomed, but educated.<br>> ><br>> > And, for the record, I think P. Diddy is an idiot. So is anyone who<br>> thinks<br>> > he speaks for African Americans.<br>> ><br>> > Keely<br>> > http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:07:57 -0800<br>> > > From: no.weatherman@gmail.com<br>> > > To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> > > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Palin's Poor Record with African Americans<br>> > ><br>> > > Dr. Gier,<br>> > ><br>> > > I been round long time but I aint never no heard of Juneteenth<br>> > celebration.<br>> > ><br>> > > But I did heard of my homeboy Diddy.<br>> > ><br>> > > "Alaska? Alaska? Alaska, Alaska, come on, man. I don't even know if<br>> > > there's any black people in Alaska. If you really think that we're<br>> > > going to let you win this election with these, like, crazy decisions<br>> > > that you're making, November 4th, we have to protect our future<br>> > > because John McCain is bugging the fuck out, okay? What is the reality<br>> > > in Alaska? There's not even no crack heads in Alaska, no black people.<br>> > > There's not even no, like me."<br>> > ><br>> > http://www.zimbio.com/P+Diddy/articles/354/What+no+Crackheads+in+Alaska<br>> > ><br>> > > He be talkin like Bishop Dave Thomas: "We wasn't even able or allowed<br>> > > to go into the meetings."<br>> > ><br>> > > Give me a break.<br>> > ><br>> > > If you want a job then you should ask for it based on your<br>> > > qualifications to perform, which includes your ability to communicate<br>> > > effectively, cause I aint never got hired by playin the race card.<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > On 10/15/08, nickgier@roadrunner.com <nickgier@roadrunner.com> wrote:<br>> > > > How Sarah Palin Excluded African-Americans in Alaska<br>> > > > posted by Max Blumenthal on 10/14/2008 @ 01:55am<br>> > > > The Nation on the Web<br>> > > ><br>> > > > On April 29, 2008, 14 leaders of Alaska's black community met with<br>> Gov.<br>> > Sarah Palin to voice discontent with her minority hiring record. Palin's<br>> > response, which was first reported by journalist Earl Ofari Hutchinson,<br>> only<br>> > compounded her icy relationship with her African-American constituents.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Gwen Alexander, the president of the African-American Historical<br>> Society<br>> > of Alaska, told me that Palin stated defiantly that she had no intention<br>> to<br>> > hire any minority staffers. And according to Bishop Dave Thomas, senior<br>> > pastor of Anchorage-based African-American church Jesus Holy Temple, the<br>> > Palin administration excluded black business owners from the Alaskan oil<br>> and<br>> > gas pipeline board. "We wasn't even able or allowed to go into the<br>> meetings"<br>> > to seek contracts for the pipeline, Thomas told me.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Palin further alienated Alaska's black community by becoming the first<br>> > Alaskan governor in recent memory to not recognize the Juneteenth<br>> > celebration of the emancipation proclamation. "She doesn't hire any black<br>> > people, she doesn't have any on her staff, so it's not a surprise that she<br>> > doesn't support our Juneteenth celebration," Alexander said.<br>> > > ><br>> > > ><br>> > > > =======================================================<br>> > > > List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> > > > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> > > > http://www.fsr.net<br>> > > > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> > > > =======================================================<br>> > > ><br>> > ><br>> > > =======================================================<br>> > > List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> > > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> > > http://www.fsr.net<br>> > > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> > > =======================================================<br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> > Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. 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