Re: I have a dream

[R V <renatevolz@xxxxxxxxx>]

... and in some places here in the Deep South this still sadly lingers. Here is an article from todays paper -  Bainbridge is in the very southwest corner of Georgia and I (born and raised in Germany) have lived here for almost 40 years and have seen many changes. Still this place has far to go .....

BOE hopes to end court order

By Jeff Findley (Contact) | Post-Searchlight

Published Friday, August 20, 2010

The Decatur County Board of Education took action Thursday night with the hopes of ending 43 years of federal judicial supervision.

After meeting in a closed session with board attorney Bruce Kirbo Jr., the board voted, with board member Clarissa Kendrick being the only dissenting vote, to give Kirbo the authorization to file a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice to end the school desegregation lawsuit initiated in May 1967.

The reorganization of the school system last year, resulting in the closure of Lillian E. Williams Elementary School, opening of the new high school, and the consolidation of grades five through eight, would be considered the final step for dismissal of the court order.

According the consent decree, which is viewable in its entirety by logging on to www.thepostsearchlight.com, the school system has to submit a report to the Justice Department by Oct. 30 that includes the racial breakdown of the district’s students, the racial breakdown of the district’s faculty, a racial and grade-level breakdown of each of the three cheerleading squads at Bainbridge High School, and the school bus routes, including pick-up and drop-off times, for students that were zoned for Lillian E. Williams Elementary in 2008-2009.

Once the Department of Justice receives that report, the system “may move for a declaration of complete unitary status no sooner than 45 days after the United States receives the Oct. 30 report.”

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well unless you have some age on you, and grew up in the right spots, you wouldn't understand.  I grew up right in the middle of it, and this scene makes perfect sense.  Did you know that in the deep south in the 60s, the black people in this scene instead of talking to white people would have been forced to eat in a separate part of the business IF they were served at all?  There were separate bathrooms, water fountains, parks and schools.   More likely the people would have been arrested, and the whites that tolerate such a conversation shunned.  Some might have been beaten.

Yet such a photograph could easily be found in the same places where no blacks allowed signs were found so many years ago.  Not perfect, but so much progress has been made its not even comparable.  Places where it once was at its worst, have now found a way to live together in a way that is a free as any where in the country.

Though those times are long gone, those that forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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Subject: RE: I have a dream
From: Pini Vollach <pinimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, August 21, 2010 4:37 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students

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I’m not American but I am familiar with M.L.K phrase: “I have a dream”.

The question is why is this image represent this phrase?

( Presence of black people is not enough, IMHO )

 

Pini

 

 

 

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Thanks to all for taking the time to review this weeks forum. I should have realized that some of our members are not from the States. I have a dream is a famous Quote from Martin Luther Kings Speech during the beginning of the civil rights movement in America.

David Small