[Mpls] ' North Star'

[David Brauer]

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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