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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi Scott,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks for wading through my (once again unedited) message. Most literate folks will shake their head at reading “Challening” rather than Challenging. Thanks for not mentioning it. On to more important things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>I don’t suppose that anyone will have a complete sense of what thought process informed the grand jury. I hope that more than one of them will write a well-documented tell all book. I mentioned the specific history of Missouri racism based on attitudes I knew from childhood. My mother, who was born, educated, and lived in Missouri until well into her 30s could not have been described as a civil rights advocate. Missouri was a slave state with a long post Civil War history of segregation, race based hate crimes, lynching, and more currently, segregated schools as late as the mid 1960s. The following contemporary work offers well documented examples of life in Ferguson and the greater St. Louis area: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/making-ferguson/"><span style='color:windowtext'>The Making of Ferguson Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles By Richard Rothstein</span></a>. The paper is lengthy, but is extraordinarily well researched and offers concrete examples of the effects of institutionalization of white privilege. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>I don’t believe that the cultural ambiance of St. Louis, or the white civic power structure encourages an introspection examination and exposure of the racist history (and present problems) of their state or city. There has been a great deal of legitimate criticism (by that I mean from professionals within the legal community) on the conduct of and the material presented by Prosecutor Robert McCulloch. Certainly we can compare and contrast remarks made by a conservative justice, <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/supreme-court-justice-scalias-words-expose-ferguson-grand-jury-legal-farce/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Anton Scalia, commenting on the purpose and duty of a grand jury,</span></a> with Mr. McCulloch’s mismanagement of the grand jury. I don’t think, given the circumstances, race can be separated from Officer Wilson’s behavior, (who appears to be a rather pathetic figure with a constellation of unresolved issues), the actions of Prosecutor McCulloch who carries a heavy load of historic heartache, or the verdict of the jury. They are who they are and acted accordingly. And, no matter how much we would like to think otherwise it is an unsavory yet accurate picture of life in America. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Rose<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Scott Dredge [mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 29, 2014 7:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> Rosemary Huskey; vision2020@moscow.com; 'Paul Rumelhart'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Vision2020] Challening issues<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I know this is aimed at Paul, but I'm going to chime in all the same. To specifically answer your questions to Paul as if they were asked to me:<br>- do you acknowledge the existence of institutional racism? Yes<br>- If so, what criteria do you use to evaluate whether or not it is present in a situation? Statistics of the category of institutionalized racism that applies coupled with specifics of the present situation<br>- Do you admit that white privilege exists? Yes. Here is a summary: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege</a><br><br>Now since you've previously written that you were 'hoping that the majority of the white members of the jury would overcome a long standing history of racisim in Missouri and bring an indictment that would have facilitated a public trial', would it disappoint you if they made the decision not to indict solely based on the information presented to them and didn't consider present or historical race issues at all?<br><br>-Scott<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From: <a href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>; <a href="mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com">paul.rumelhart@gmail.com</a><br>Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:58:58 -0800<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Challening issues<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Paul, do you acknowledge the existence of institutional racism? If so, what criteria do you use to evaluate whether or not it is present in a situation? What is the history of institutional racism in the U.S. Do you admit that white privilege exists? Have you ever experienced prejudicial treatment based on skin color? I ask because these questions not to criticize but in the hope that you will reflect upon them and perhaps consider that it is likely that you have not had wide experience with the concept. You may want to seize the opportunity to learn from others who have first-hand experience on the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rose <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>======================================================= List services made available by First Step Internet, serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a> =======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>