I believe diversity is a joy to Godde, and kindness the profoundest form of sanity.

May she find vindication and fairness, may she even more importantly *know* vindication in everything she is, in her dignity, and her inner strength.

I don't know your details but your post was evocative and moving, and I do hope this day is good, and kindness prevails against the unkindness of the past.

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Amen and thanks.

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That is one primary reason I took early retirement.
The Roman church in these parts no longer values,
heterosexual, nonLatino, nonblack anybody, especially
women. I see the same dynamic in academia here and
am so sorry your Professor has experienced this. We
are dumbing ourselves down when the only qualifications
are color and sexual orientation and I see the results
in the semiliterate graduates of our secondary and
state schools here. I am praying she will finally win.
May God bless you both and continue to give you patience,
tolerance, endurance and more than just survival, some
joy and justice.

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Thank you.

I see I wasn't very clear about the color issue. Her college caters to a Latino community which is very conscious of race, and the teaching staff includes the sort of Cuban who cheered Castro on chiefly because Battista was of partially African descent. Indeed the term Indio is used to deny any African admixture, and no doubt it is embarassing to have folks from India around. And some academics of Jewish descent harbor bitter feelings against people of color in general dating back to the '60s and '70s, and such feelings are often mixed up with the sort of racial pride that passes for religion in those who don't believe in God.

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No. I think I got it. The dynamics are a little
bit different but same root. The Latinos in our
city hate the blacks, vice versa. In the parish
I worked in, the blacks there wanted to help
the Latinos integrate, share their experience
with this and how to do it but the Latinos wanted
none of it. Well, I could say more but there are
many problems. Now, the diocese's preference is
to hire what they consider to be minorities but
the only two minorities considered now are AfAm
and Latino. Academia here is now prejuidiced
toward Asian and Caucasian and leans in favor
of AfAm and to a lesser degree, Latino. It's
ugly prejuidice and shifts around from group
to group. I wonder if it will ever stop?

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I'm just sick about the All State and have been reading this series with great interest and some catharsis. Happy to hear you scored some chairs.

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Best of all, two of the tables!

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Not only "nice" furniture but good furniture. Best of luck to the lovely + talented Maya today and hope to get to see you guys sometime again in life.

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gosh sorry to hear of end
of allstate cafe, any other
good bars near your place?

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Still looking. But not too hard.

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still holding to diet?
I have hardly been drinking myself
these days

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I permit myself rare exceptions. Other than that I'm in it for the long haul.

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