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To: Ilaine who wrote (45967)	7/18/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

No wonder we learned nothing but white-washed, deodorized history in high school. Know-nothingism perpetuating itself. Not all of us. My HS history teacher was "Mad Ella" Rhodes. She was a devotee of Izzy Stone (I.F. Stone to the uninitiated). I was in school at the time of the Cuban revolution, and she was appalled by the treatment the U.S. gave Castro when he came here for help and support; she was convinced that we drove him to communism, and that he would have been a U.S. ally if we had given him a chance. She was also a strong proponent of active democracy. Despite her nickname, foisted on her by the American Legion types who saw anything other than blind adulation of the U.S. to be commie pinko thinking, she was a great admirer of the principles of the American Revolution, which she believed had been betrayed by the industrial-military complex. Not white-washed, deodorized history, nor Marxism. I would have loved to her talk with Jefferson sometime. Maybe I will. I suspect they are deep in discussion right now.