<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please forward widely.<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Davis, Ashley</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adavis2@ad.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">adavis2@ad.uiuc.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:24 PM<br>Subject: Disturbing Images from Downtown Champaign<br>To: <a href="mailto:OIIR@listserv.illinois.edu" target="_blank">OIIR@listserv.illinois.edu</a><br><br><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Hello Colleagues,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I hope
you are well on this beautiful Tuesday. This afternoon I received a phone
call concerning disturbing images in downtown Champaign. I rushed to the scene
of the crime and found the images to be as disheartening
and disturbing as described. </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Talks
with the owner concerning the offensive nature of the images proved
futile. They were first described as "art," then "history," and finally as
"folklore." These images are being painted as I type and are located on the wall
of "Carrie's" on Neil St. in downtown Champaign across the street from
Boltini Lounge.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2"><span>I warn you to brace yourselves as you
view<span> this </span>image.<span> </span><span>There are
more images but the list serv won't let them through. </span>
Encounters such as this prove</span><span> the need for the existence of the Bruce Nesbitt
African American Cultural Center, OMSA, DAAS and OIIR as our mission to
educate individuals is never-ending. </span></font></font></font></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Best,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Ashley
M. Davis</font></span></div></div>
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