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Re: Redlining



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>(Let me add that remailers are great.  I would be reluctant to express
>these ideas in any other way for professional reasons.)

hehehe.

>(Those who don't believe me should get "Love Supreme" by John Coltrane
>and listen to it carefully about 20 times.  There are layers and

And what was it that Bird's contemporary society called him?  Was it crazy?
 This is one of the social ills potentially caused by discrimination.  Far
more important to me than the politics of any time is the music that a time
period presents.  But this visionary jazz musician was all but discredited
by the musical environment of the times.  Thankfully, it survived on its
merits.  But imagine if the campaign to discredit Coltrane had been
successful and my young ears never experienced that beauty.  That is part
of the potential harm I am talking about.

>At any rate, those who wish to enlighten their fellows on the subject
>of racism can do better than "it's just wrong."

Many of us take many different routes.  Most of us fill our days taking
action and have precious little time to enlighten people other than those
they encounter daily.

>
>Red Rackham
>

Matt


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