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..and the speculation of how the human race may percieve what constitutes a healthy healing in the future was great!....til I nodded off. Anyone else hear it and want to comment?
I agree with Art- gotta go pick up the book.
I agree with Art- gotta go pick up the book.
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Re: "Radical Evolution"
Sun, November 26, 2006 - 11:42 AMit was fascinating... it was also good to hear somebody with an optimistic perspective on these things... so much of what we hear tends to be doom and gloom... -
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Sun, November 26, 2006 - 2:20 PMI didn't catch the whole show. I like the idea of having a "positive" outlook. When the guest started talking about his teenage kids & how they felt that the struggle against racism was like "ancient" history & was not very revelant I got really disguested with him. I'm kind of paraphrasing here but he said his kids were watching "Eyes on the Prize" & they thought that the images of African-American protesters getting hosed down was irrelevant to them. That's pretty obnoxious. Especially, if his kids are any reflection on him... Racism is still a very prevelent issue in America & throughout the world. It's not been solved by any means even though some states have elected to get rid of affirmative-action programs based on the fact that there's no longer discrimination. That's not the case by a long shot. As long as there are neo-Nazis, the KKK & all the other various hate groups, there is still racism... plus all the more subtle forms of discriminating against people who may have different skin color, religion, nationality, etc. This guy must be living with his head in the sand. I don't see how anyone watching people being opressed in such awful ways can not be moved with some kind of compassion. -
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Sun, November 26, 2006 - 10:31 PMI happen to agree with you....enough to wait for our library to get it in. How race wiggled into his time on CtoC is suspicious. I get CtoC on the whitebread-right station, so this stuff would fly right by many of the listeners. -
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Sun, November 26, 2006 - 10:58 PMArt can't control what his guest's opinions are but this really ticked me off. I am going to send Art an e-mail if I have time. What planet is the guest (I don't recall his name) living on? I'd be truely disguised if those where my kids. Seems like they are a "chip off the old block." I guess race isn't an issue in his universe... What a joke "Radical Evolution". For who?
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Mon, November 27, 2006 - 2:00 PMI guess I must have missed something ... I heard the guy make the comment about
"his teenage kids & how they felt that the struggle against racism was like "ancient" history "
but I took it more as a comment on how times have changed, and how his kids had never
seen that stuff in that way before.
I kinda saw it like the way I see my grandson when I tell him there didn't used to be 'nintendo' or cablevision or...TV even...
and he looks at me with complete astonishement and says "No Way!"
I thought the guy was saying there have been a few steps forward since the Civil Rights Movement started..
kids these days are amazed that we had the Vietnam War, or that a president was 'for really assasinated' two even... wow..
For them Martin Luther King may be a hard concept to grasp. Its normal these days to see an interacial couple with mixed kids...
Kids don't understand the stigma that was attatched to people like Rosa Parks when she was told to sit at the back of the bus...
but then I can't really defend the guest speaker as I didn't catch the whole show... and wouldn't want my comments misconstrued here...
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Re: "Radical Evolution"
Mon, November 27, 2006 - 6:22 PMHi anni-
I didn't hear the whole show & I think that is how I initially viewed the response (as you stated). The more I thought about it the more angry I became. Has fiction really become so intertwined into fact that younger people can't see the difference? If I see pictures of people in German concentration camps, the Vietnam war, or African-Americans being lynched it produces a feeling of compassion in me towards their struggle. I don't view it as "oh that's just some old stuff that doesn't apply any more" (especially since discrimination is present everyday). I think that's rather insensitive on the part of the guest that evening... I actaully know alot of people who think the way the author does, though. Mostly, white middle-class folks who only associate with other white middle-class folks. They generally don't have any friends of other races or income brackets so it's not part of their immediate reality. It's kind of sad & appathetic.
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