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To: Dale Baker who wrote (561)	6/9/2005 11:12:30 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) of 541604

Dale, that was truly a beautiful post. Oh that more people on this planet were as tolerant and compassionate about other's rights as you are. I agree with what you think and have in my lifetime tried to fight for equality for all. I learned in my first camping experience where there were black counselors.. BACK before most of you were born... the forties... that once I worked around people of color I ceased to see color. That Black counselor was just Val... or another just counselor. I became color blind.. This WASP reared in a small own with parents who were prejudiced... changed.. On a day off I had loaded up my car with counselors who also had off and were asking to go into town with me. I was called into the Director's quarters and told the following. Do you know you are taking 3 Blacks with you tomorrow. You had better go into the restaurant in Newburgh New York and see whether they accept Blacks.. as you would not want them to be embarrassed. I did this. They did and we had a grand time. The word then however was Negroes.. It was only later that the term Blacks evolved and then African Americans... When I was director of a camp in later years, I went to the South and recruited from Spellman and Clark colleges First professional blacks in a YWCA camp. Up until that time blacks were only in the kitchen or driving the camp car. In later years, one of the counselors who was on the staff, wrote to me that that summer with Whites and outside her Atlanta Ghetto.. had emboldened her to be the first Black woman to be admitted to graduate school. She had to withstand rotten eggs and oaths hurled at her but she persevered.. Each little step toward tolerance, each little inroad to having fewer divisive actions and more Human and so called Christian actions are a step toward a better world. IMO

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