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Shakesthecoffecan:
So today while wait for my oil to be changed I treaded my self to the email exchange betwixt an openly gay man and one Marcia Ramode, a U.S. Army recruiter who had contacted him after reading his online resume. She initially offered him employment until he told her who he was.
The army has reassigned her. I guess they can't fire her, but that is what she deserves. It is an interesting dynamic that she seems to be getting away with her treatment of him as a black man because he is gay. You can down load a pdf here:
http://www.sldn.org/templates/press/record.html?record=3907§ion=2
I tried sending her an email, the address no longer works.
Shakesthecoffecan:
Most fastinating thing I heard on NPR this evening: Emory University has released the personal corrspondence betwixt the author Flannery O'Connor and her friends.
The focus of the story was the correspondence of a "recluse" who worked for the credit bureau. One Elizabeth Hester, a woman discharged from the military for an apparent lesbian act. Flannery O'Conner worte back to her that she could not write back fast enough and tell her she had not changed her opinion. She added it was good that she told her, but after they had become friends and they quoted her as saying the most wonderful thing:
"We are not our history."
(You promise?)
Front-Ranger:
Thanks for telling us about this. That is wonderful! I must know more!
Shakesthecoffecan:
Here is a link to the story:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2007/05/13/0513metflannery.html
I am puzzled as to why O'Conner did not save any of Hester's letters, it is like hearing one end of a phone conversation.
Wayne:
Wow ... Ms Hester Prynne... :)
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