Crimney. Can't we move on? This seems like a real misrepresentation
of what Samuels meant.
I don't live in the 5th, but as a city resident, watching this play
out is depressing. We can't seem to get to the point of what these
elected representatives have done, and how their work in City Hall
indicates what they will do. Instead, it's a hall of racial mirrors
with words being twisting to make candidates appear like insensitive
monsters, rather than people.
Personally, I think it stinks and I wish it would stop.
David Brauer
Kingfield
On Jul 12, 2005, at 10:02 AM, jeanneharris wrote:
Citrus Punch
It is unimaginable to envision Samuels as a 'North Star'- he
who is STILL enthralled with his 'mulatto / Big House '
grandparents and derisive of his'field slave' grandmother," We
don't know much about her, grandfather never spoke about her, we
think she must have been a field slave".
He would have never left the plantation and the "big house" / after
all- this is where " they saw piano lessons being taught, and books
being read , ....."! " Our advantage ( family) that we enjoyed
over the other folk in our village is a direct result of my
grandfathers being the last of the mulatto slaves who lived in the
big house " ( D.Samuels)
The True North Star proclaimed - " You gon be free or dead, cause
dead Negroes don't tell no tales" !
Jeanne Harris / Near North, 5th Ward
jh
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