Thread: Marilyn Nelson
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Unread 10-21-2001, 06:37 PM
Victor Kulkosky Victor Kulkosky is offline
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Thanks, Tim, for bringing a different perspective.

I'm afraid my little diatribe was a mistake. It wasn't well thought out and written when I was half asleep. Since it was a response to the Nelson poems posted, I talked about African Americans and women, not meaning to imply that weren't other groups who have been or are oppressed here or anywhere else by someone.

But it seems, "What we have here is failure to communicate." The reactions to my post seem to be peripheral to what I THOUGHT I was trying to say. Correct me if you see otherwise, but I don't recall saying anything about collective rights. I was trying to say something about dialog and inclusion, but apparently failed to get that across. In the future, I'll either edit my posts on controversial topics or simply save politically charged statements for other venues -- probably the latter, since my time is limited and I'm not temperamentally (sp.?) suited to heated discussions.
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