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I am hesitant to post a reply to this, as I haven't followed this thread,  
and have many, many posts backed up that I haven't even read yet.
 
Thirty years ago, when I left my husband, it was partly because I had tried  
for a long, long time to establish my own business. It was just at the 
beginning  of the Women's Liberation movement (which he abhorred - I think it 
frightened  him), and I was turned down by every financial institution 
because they 
all tied  me to my husband, and he was having none of it.
 
I ended up going from the San Fernando Valley, to Tucson, to St. Louis,  
where i fell in with a group of black musicians, and wrote lyrics for them 
and  we 
traveled...until I was not allowed to accompany the group for a 'gig' in  
Mississippi - no white girls allowed to travel with black men.
 
The group and I had wanted to open a restaurant/cocktail lounge where they  
could play and I could cook (watch out, Emeril!) and we finally found a  
place 
across the river in East St. Louis (scary!) - a three-story building  that 
would have served as a restaurant on the ground floor, office and  living 
quarters on the second floor, and storage on the top floor. 
 
Voila! The SBA loan came through - with the sudden change in..."equality" -  
simply because they were black and I am a woman.
 
Due to our individual domestic situations, we had to give it up before we  
even started...all of them returning to their own lives and me returning to 
my  
children in California.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
In a message dated 9/15/2008 11:39:41 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
lurine AT softcom.net writes:
 
Jerry  Kellman, Michael Evans and another guy whose name I can never  
remember.  They ran a Jewish/Catholic non-profit.  He was the  only paid 
employee.  They were *trying* to do good things in Chicago  and couldn't get 
anywhere because they were 3 white guys.  They  needed a front man who would 
"relate" to the local residents.  They  needed a black guy.

And, just a note, for those who might have read his  book or heard his 
speeches, he did NOT discover the asbestos problem, nor  did he "spear-head" 
the campaign to get it removed.  He was a  Johnny-Come-Lately to the work. 
Hazel Johnson is the person who discovered  the problem and started the work 
to get it removed.

Developing  Communities Project is now a big organization and is no longer 
run by "3  white guys."

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From:  <rayzentz AT aim.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent:  Monday, September 15, 2008 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Enjoy the quiet  while it lasts...


> Ah...   Thank you.   Do  you know who the "white guys" were?
>
>  Ray
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynda  <lurine AT softcom.net>
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
>  Sent: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Enjoy the  quiet while it lasts...
>
>
>
> He was hired by some  white guys as a front man because he was black.
> They
> wanted to  organize black churches.  He was "assigned" 20 churches to
>  "organize."  He wasn't getting anywhere with those churches.   The
> "white
> guys" told him that folks in the church preferred  someone who was a
> church
> member.  He went scouting  thorugh the 20 churches and came up with
> Wright.
> Liked Wright,  joined his church and found out the "white guys" were
> correct
>  in that after he had a church to belong to the other churches welcomed
>  him
> as "one of us" and were willing to work with him.
>
>  He also stated in an the faith debate that "religion is a tool."   That
> is a
> direct quote.
>
> Lynda
> -----  Original Message -----
> From:  <rayzentz AT aim.com>
>
>
>>I hadn't heard that he  went through THAT many churches.   Where did you
>> get  that?   You are correct, though.   That makes it even  worse.   He
>> deliberately chose what he listened  to.
>
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