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...same time that we're perhaps divided on the surface, when we can get down to the core [of what we're doing for the Black community] it can only unite us in a better understanding," says BSA Treasurer Joshua D. Bloodworth...
...Bloodworth characterizes his executive board as being "very dynamic," bringing energy and openness to the BSA. Because of that, he says, participation in BSA activities is high and enthusiastic leaders have a good chance of steering eager members toward their favorite projects...
Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, you will recall, are the very rich television producers (Designing Women, Evening Shade) who caused a stir during the early days of the Clinton Administration on account of their close friendship with the President and his wife and their constant presence at the White House. Washington has changed considerably since then: the Thomasons have been swept out of town (or at least out of sight) and the Republicans have swept in. All of which may have sharpened the Thomasons' sense of outrage but not their satirical skills...
Thus you--you Mr. Bloodworth, you Ms. Clarke, etc.--should form tutorial programs for the millions of poor Black children in our cities--programs in reading, thinking, math, historical reasoning, biology, etc. We already have a fine example of this viable, helping-hand-to-Black-poor activity to imitate--namely, the activity of former Harvard student Rev. Eugene Rivers, organized through a Pentecostal mission church program in Boston...
Anyway, I offer this "open letter" to my Government 1570 class in general and to Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke and others in their circle in particular, as both critical advice and loving advice, too. This mode of advice--critical but loving--used to be a common pattern of exchange between the "Old Heads" among Black leadership and the young...