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ANOTHER DISSATISFIED READER SPEAKS OUT
Monday, September 23, 1996
YOUR DEPLORABLE NEWSLETTER...
I'm sick and tired of individucals like yourselves. Unable and unwillingto face the human inadequecies you may feel in yourselves, you proceed toblame others for your percieved problems.
Perhaps if you learned the real history of America, rather than the sanitizedversion concocted by you and yours, you would realize that most AfricanAmericans arrived on these shores several generations, hundreds of years,before the majority of Anglo Americans. We have made contributions to thiscountry which you cannot, and will not comprehend.
If it had not been for the talents and efforts of African Americans, therewould be no blood banks, no rock and roll, no mass-produced shoes, no cheaplight bulbs, no automatic headlights, no sealed-beam car headlights, norefrigeration in trains and planes, no Washington D.C., no American English,and no distintive American culture.
Should I go on?
Somehow, you have convinced yourselves that we African Amricans do nothingbut lay on our backs, produce babies, steal money from the government andcommit crimes. Well, I am here to tell you that we make contributions. ColinPowell is an African American. I, an Anthropologist, am an African AmericanPhD. and no, I, my parents, or any of my 6 sisters and brothers have everbeen involved in incest or had a single child out of wedlock. You have uspenned wrong, and your ignorance shines through.
It is people like yourselves, not African Americans, who will lead to thedownfall of American society. The UNABOMBER, David Koresch, Ted Bundy, thebombers of the federal building in Oklahoma City and Jeffrey Daumer werenot African Americans.
I believe in your freedom of speech, however, before you continue to spreaddisimformation I believe you should CHECK YOURSELVES.
A Christian Sister I Challenge you to print this on the web.
Tanya Price <typrice@siu.edu>