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...very small budget, though. We have a $200,000 per year budget. We have four or five staff people and an executive director who gets paid $36,000 a year. We get some support from grant makers, and people give $3,000 or $4,000 for summer camps, etc. We survive off of that...
...about Ebonics. By this logic, anytime a newspaper or magazine discusses Japan, it should be in Japanese, else there would be an English/Japanese binary. To use a more extreme example, anytime there is a story about blind people it should be written in braille, to avoid the braille/English binary, etc. The implications of this logic are grave indeed: language should only be utilized in a very narrow, self-descriptive sense. Ebonics should only be used in describing people and subjects that are particular to Ebonics. It seems to me that this limited, minimalist view of language leads to more "opposition...
...downsizing is understandable. So is Cose's unexceptionable prescription for a race neutrality ("We must stop playing the blame game...We must do a better job at leveling the playing field...We must become serious about fighting discrimination...We must seize opportunities for interracial collaboration," etc.). But the motivational generalities are a letdown after an otherwise well-considered exploration of a profoundly complex issue...
...year-old white male, college educated, well read, with more than 25 years experience as a cop in the San Francisco Bay Area. I got tired of living in a metropolitan area and moved to a small town just north of Sacramento. Here, excluding the fast-food jobs, etc., there is no work beyond low-level labor and self-employment. And even though there is no "job explosion" here, many of us prefer to live in a more decent, friendly and respectful environment and not in cities. JOHN LASTER Auburn, California...
...problem goes beyond my personal inconvenience: if gay and straight people are ever to get along, notions of what "gay," "straight," "lesbian," "bisexual," etc., will have to be thrown out. I can't live in a community of straight people if I believe that my telling them "I am gay" automatically means that I am fabulous, or interested in advancing certain gay rights, or promiscuous. And I think that any straight person who really thinks this way can never really appreciate individual gay people as they are. I hope that for you, the reader, words "gay," "lesbian," etc., carry fewer...