From: "Rodney Coates" To: "heilman@pixie.soc.qc.edu" Date: Tue, 19 Nov 96 15:16:59 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Re: Should We Be Silent??? On Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:32:22 -0500 (EST), Samuel Heilman wrote: >Gee, all this because I oppose the use of violence as a response to an >unpopular jury decision? I am glad you were not in charge either of the >American revolution or the U.N. Glad too you did not bust heads when the >O.J. miscarriage of justice came in. Samuel: where exactly did we go wrong...Did we talk accross and through each other. My original post had to do with the fact that a sacred buriel mond was being utilized as a dump site by a waste disposal company in florida. The fward that i sent forward asked individuals to call and write protesting this desecration. As i understand you objected to this..at which i responded that protest was at the heart of what america was about...now somehow you twisted this and started talking about Oj simpson...do you have a hangup with this virdict...or what...again nothing i said had anything to do with oj simpson, it did have to do with the desecration of a sacred nativ american burial site in florida..now can we get on the same page.. umoja (unity, through love, peace, respect and understanding) Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu http://www.ilhawaii.net:80?~premaq/Coates/01-home.html