Re: [xmca] For real

Hi,

Yes, it is great to remember The Little Rock Nine - and their brave
activity. One of them Gloria (now Gloria Karlmark) lives in Stockholm
and last year I read an interwiev where she said that the price they
paid (and still are paying) was and is high. Many of us still have
nightmares.

Activity --- integration
is not a tea party

so, thank you, LR Nine!

Leif
Sweden

2 jan 2008 kl. 18.09 skrev ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org:

>
> Mike:
>
> The Little Rock 9 is certainly a great example of reality! Both a
> traumatic
> and optimistic time in U.S. history.
> Given the current discussion of Andy's paper perhaps this could be a
> representation of the problem?
>
> obejctive spirit --> 'all people are created equal'
> artefact -- > segregation
> activity --> integration
>
>
> I don't know. . .or perhaps I do but. . .
> what do you think?
> what do others think?
>
> eric
>
>
>
> "Mike Cole"
> <lchcmike@gmail. To: "eXtended
> Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> com> cc:
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> real
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>
> 01/01/2008 10:06
> PM
> Please respond
> to mcole; Please
> respond to
> "eXtended Mind,
> Culture,
> Activity"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> This evening on the public tv network in the US, a black woman who
> is now
> am
> important TV anchor
> interviewed the 9 people who, as high schoolers, integrated the school
> system of Little Rock in a souther US state... the one that
> produced one William Clinton.
>
> An AMAZING program. Far better 50th anniversary to remember than
> those that
> touch us directly/personally.
>
> 15-17 year olds, following THE law of THE land, attempt to go to
> school. A
> local Governer calls out the state
> national guard and blocks the door. The president of the US, a former
> general who subsequently warned us all
> against the military-industrial complex then threatening not only
> the US
> (he
> had not figured out the role of
> public universities yes, left it to us), sent in Federal (national)
> troops
> and forced the local folks to accept the
> extraordinarily odd and hard-to-defend idea that "all people are
> created
> equal" and now these 6066+ year
> olds had to reflect on what it all meant.
>
> Whoa. What did it mean? Not nearly enough to suit my preferences.
> But it
> meant that these then-young people
> brought about a change in a direction that might be called (excuse the
> term,
> its problematic) progress. Not enough,
> not for enough people, not not not. but also not nothing.
>
> Welcome to the first day of the rest of our lives.
> mike
>
>
> PS-- Perhaps available at PBS.org? (The program that is, the rest
> of your
> lives are available at a station right inside
> your own bodies and in your ..... ugh..... environment?)
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