RE: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism HOME SCHOOLING - OFF-TOPIC STORY

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Parts of Boston are, indeed, parts of the Old South when it comes to
racial attitudes. Actually, what Boston resembles more than anything
else is the Balkans...

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You must be talking about Boston with all of the busing problems it had
and still has. I understand the Boston rednecks are still raising sand
over the Federal busing order.

By the way, is Boston still considered to be part of the old South?

Don R.
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Subject: RE: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism HOME SCHOOLING -
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> During the early 70s I spent about 18 months covering what passed for 
> "education" in Prince George's County, Md, the first county south of 
> the city, the county to which blue collar whites had fled, and to 
> which middle class blacks were just then beginning to flee - a county 
> mired in its Southern past; a county just then struggling with forced 
> bussing....
>
> Well, one of the "ladies" who always showed up at the school board 
> meetings to rant and rave about the evils of the Feds, the evils of 
> bussing, and the evils of Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," which

> - horrors! - was in a collection of short stories one grade was 
> reading, was "home schooling" her kids and a couple of other kids. For

> some reason she decided that she could trust me, probably because she 
> so thoroughly hated the Post's regular education writer and saw me as 
> a young push-over. And so she agreed to have me write about her home 
> schooling effort.
>
> I spent a day in this woman's basement, where she "educated" about a 
> half-dozen kids using McGuffey Readers and materials prepared by 
> groups I don't even want to think about. And then I wrote a long 
> feature story about the day, a story that ran on page one of the Wash 
> Post.
>
> Well, I was convinced that the story made her sound like the racist, 
> fascist, nut job she was - using her own words to convey that. My 
> colleagues on the paper also read the story in that light. But when 
> the piece ran - she absolutely loved it! Why? Because I quoted her 
> accurately and let her tell her own story. So believing that she was a

> crusader for Truth,Justice, and Jesus's American Way, she was 
> convinced that the story showed her in a good light - when in fact it 
> showed her to be exactly what she really was. :-)
>
> End of story.
>
>
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> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of S 
> Dimitrov
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:21 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism
>
>
> My favorite code term is "home schooling." Every cracker, er, I mean 
> gentleman and gentle lady, that I've come across espousing the 
> practise was flaming non-white person challenged. I hope that was the 
> PC way of saying it.  Slobodan Dimitrov
>
>
> Robert Marvin wrote:
>     Despite racist use of the term 'State's Rights' as a  code, not 
> every use of
> > that term has to be racist and I'm certain that that was not Marc's 
> > intent.
> > >
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