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Skriven 2007-05-12 14:59:42 av Carol Shenkenberger (3:800/201)
     Kommentar till en text av hap newsom
Ärende: Re: sneaky moms!
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*** Quoting hap newsom from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

-> BTW, we are all 'color blind' in echos but I have your standard American 
hn> mixed 
-> set and my only African ancestors are 4 generations back (that we know 
hn> of....).
-> 
-> In an earlier time, I might have been classified as a white looking black? 
-> Perhaps I take more offense to EGB's books over this.  His treatment of 
hn> blacks 
-> is that of 'noble animal' and 'almost truely human' (which by his d
-> means white skin).
-> 
-> REadng his books did do one good thing for me though.  It made me very 
hn> happy 
-> that I was born in a later more sane time.  Charlotte, born even la
-> will not understand 'man of his times' yet she can read Machivelli and get 
hn> that
-> 
-> point (bit deep for her but she's read a little of it).
-> 
-> Perhaps though I'm not giving her credit fairly.  She's read every Jack 
hn> London 
-> story I have (I lack a few of the nautical ones at home) and can deal with 
hn> his 
-> milder expression of prejudice against native indians, perhaps because 
hn> they 
-> vary by story as noble in their environment at times.  I am 1/16th native 
-> American so Charlotte is 1/32nd.
-> 
hn> I think she'd understand more than you imagine. As a military brat of
hn> and 60's I always went to school with kids of all mixes, always played
hn> kids of all sorts of heritages, a true hodge podge of cultures. I alwa
hn> at everyone as my equal and didn't really understand what was going on
hn> the civil rights movement till later when I found out everyone else wa
hn> me (in terms of believeing everyone is just as good as I am). My famil
hn> been in the USA since the early 1600's and some cherokee blood got add
hn> the early 1700's (although that was a family "secret" till the mid 190
hn> other than that I am Scotch, Irish, English, and French, and as common
hn> dirt. Burroughs was fiction so I knew it was "pretend" so I guess it d

Same here.  Many of us are all mixed and we are happier for it.  Military brats
learn real fast that color is just a description when trying to explain what a
person looks like to someone who's not seen them.  The only other relevance is
if you need to borrow sunscreen to keep your skin from getting patches of
color that are uneven or even unsightly burning red for some of us <g>.

hn> Going to sea can be a bummer! Perhaps you can make some sort 
hn> of "independent study" program with the teacher for over the summer? H
hn> can lay out "lessons" and Charlotte can work through them (with your 
hn> guidance) over the summer to end up where she needs to be (or even ahe
hn> of ) with her grade level.

Well, keeping her to grade level is easy if I'm home.  Getting past this
debacle of the grade system with 3 F's in english, isnt so easy.  Lets hope
for the best.
                                       xxcarol

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