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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I assume the squiggle at the end implies mordant sarcasm, right, John?<br></blockquote>
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<div>*yawn* Not in the least, Carl. It's a simple smiley face. I was and am glad to see Durango posting.</div>
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<div>Now let me go and look up "mordant".... :-) <------- another smiley face, virtually identical to the last one</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Given the mayor's record - neatly summarized by Neal Parthun on this list - going after him for having Wrong Thoughts about the Blessed Obama is at best like indicting Al Capone for tax evasion. --CGE </blockquote>
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<div>Ah, but tax evasion is what finally got Capone sent up, isn't it? As a pragmatist, I'll take whatever I can get.</div>
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<div class="im">On 4/17/10 8:24 PM, John W. wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="im">It's wonderful to see some "new" voices on the peace-discuss list, and making<br>so much sense at that. :-) John<br><br>On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Durango Mendoza <<a href="mailto:durangom@hotmail.com" target="_blank">durangom@hotmail.com</a><br>
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<div class="h5"><mailto:<a href="mailto:durangom@hotmail.com" target="_blank">durangom@hotmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br><br>Adding sugar and cream to the tea party birther line with a couple of verbal<br>pastries on the side is to cloud the issue at hand. We have not just seen a<br>
slip of the tongue after quaffing from the tea party cup. We have glimpsed<br>the underlying and fundamental base that guides the mayor’s thoughts, actions<br>and non-actions. They reveal, if not fully, why he could let the killing of<br>
a black teen not have logical consequences.<br><br>Adding side issues that national wrongs should be addressed instead, and<br>pointing out one’s right to lie bears a striking resemblance to school yard<br>retorts, “Oh, yeah, what he did is nothing compared to what big so-and-so<br>
did, so just shut up already! Why don’t you make HIM stop if it bothers you<br>so much?” Such dismissive and pot-stirring comparisons are too easily made<br>and are fundamentally unhelpful. That larger issues need work does not mean<br>
local ones do not need action. This issue adds traction to the injustice<br>ones.<br><br>I’m sure there were some major national and world issues that needed work at<br>the same time that a tired Rosa Parks decided to sit where she was rather<br>
than move. “Why, I bet some of those white passengers were more tired than<br>she was. I mean, like, like...what makes her better than them? Don’t they<br>have rights too? I bet she wasn't really tired. She just wanted to make local<br>
trouble.” And she did have a plan: start local and personal and larger change<br>could follow. In spite of dismissers, apologists, assassins, and "moles"<br>planted among the change agents, positive change happened. And more is needed<br>
as our work is not yet complete. It requires the helpful support of the<br>many.<br><br>Change does start one person at a time. Sadly, so does hate.<br><br>DM</div></div></blockquote></blockquote>
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