[Durham INC] New from the Rev-elution - Jeanne Lucas

[Deborah Christie]

Dear Melissa,

>From my perspective of 62 years, we Americans have come a long way on race, regardless of continuing racism and racial polarization.  I remember the very bad old days of KKK violence and vicious anti-miscegenation laws.  

For encouragement, highly recommend Professor Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature, Why Violence Has Declined 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature) which describes, among many other things, how race riots have virtually disappeared from the civilized world, and how violence in general has drastically decreased over the millennia and particularly in the last century.  A real tour de force and an effective reply to fear-mongers and naysayers.

The real  breakthrough on race is coming, when we end the "war on drugs" which predominantly and unfairly impacts the African-American community (see The New Jim Crow by Law Professor Michelle Alexander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow).

Always appreciate your comments, Melissa.

Cheers -

Deb Christie

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Melissa Rooney 
  To: Susan Sewell ; inc-list at rtpnet.org 
  Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 3:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [Durham INC] New from the Rev-elution - Jeanne Lucas


  All great suggestions with regard to increasing my understanding of the situation.
  But I ask again...what can we do...right here, right now, to start moving toward equity?


  What game rules need to be changed? What new rules need to be implemented?


  Until we can get to some specific solutions, this problem of race will be a revolving door that never fully closes.


  I, for one, may eventually choose to join my AA acquaintance in Australia on a full time basis in order to escape the everlasting racial tensions in this county, and indeed this country...but that kind of international move will have to wait for many, many more years.


  Melissa







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  From: Susan Sewell <mssewell2009 at gmail.com>
  To: inc-list at rtpnet.org 
  Sent: Sunday, 3 June 2012 3:35 PM
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  Since you asked, Melissa, I personally recommend supporting the Pauli Murray Project and attending their events here in Durham. They continue to provide a variety of spaces to discuss race, its past and present roles in Durham, and finding ways to learn and grow in community. (And reading Pauli Murray's books, especially Proud Shoes!)
  http://paulimurrayproject.org/   
  Susan Sewell



  Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 01:04:15 +0000
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  I have one suggestion for those of the dominant culture to understand what Carl is saying: Read "Race Matters" by Dr. Cornel West--then you will begin to undertand.

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