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From: Perry Nodelman <perry.nodelman>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:21:38 -0500
I've been asked to forward this to the list. Yrs., Perry Nodelman
---------From: TOBA SINGER
To: perry.nodelman at uwinnipeg.ca Subject: Thank you Date: Sat, Oct 16, 1999, 11:34 AM
This is to appreciate your contribution on the subject of hurting children. When did it become the librarian's job to join the team of professional whitewashers of history? If so many of us object to the abuses of class society and its inequities, why would we try to hide from its future citizens the painful truth about its pain-inflicting birth and development? Perhaps there are those among us who think that its excesses are simply abberations that can be glossed out of books, censored or edited. When you are quite certain that these things we find abhorrant are not excesses but the meat and potatoes of the exploitation and oppression all around us, we can confidently offer the true picture to children instead of the harmonious picture--with the expectation that they will learn from the past and thereby consciously decide not to contribute to its repetition by whatever means strikes them as effective.
You may add the above to the discussion. Unfortunately, I don't have a way of getting into the queue at this time.
Thank you,
Toba Singer Potrero Library San Francisco, California Tobas at SFPL.Lib.CA.US
Received on Sun 17 Oct 1999 09:21:38 AM CDT
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:21:38 -0500
I've been asked to forward this to the list. Yrs., Perry Nodelman
---------From: TOBA SINGER
To: perry.nodelman at uwinnipeg.ca Subject: Thank you Date: Sat, Oct 16, 1999, 11:34 AM
This is to appreciate your contribution on the subject of hurting children. When did it become the librarian's job to join the team of professional whitewashers of history? If so many of us object to the abuses of class society and its inequities, why would we try to hide from its future citizens the painful truth about its pain-inflicting birth and development? Perhaps there are those among us who think that its excesses are simply abberations that can be glossed out of books, censored or edited. When you are quite certain that these things we find abhorrant are not excesses but the meat and potatoes of the exploitation and oppression all around us, we can confidently offer the true picture to children instead of the harmonious picture--with the expectation that they will learn from the past and thereby consciously decide not to contribute to its repetition by whatever means strikes them as effective.
You may add the above to the discussion. Unfortunately, I don't have a way of getting into the queue at this time.
Thank you,
Toba Singer Potrero Library San Francisco, California Tobas at SFPL.Lib.CA.US
Received on Sun 17 Oct 1999 09:21:38 AM CDT
