Dr. [Phyllis] Chesler // Dear Alice [Walker] // Dear [Pres.] Obama
From the Chesler Chronicles site, verbatim, except see that site for the comments… Not timely for the season, but still a timely topic…
April 1st, 2008 11:51 am
A Letter to Alice Walker in Response to her Pro-Obama Article
Dear Alice:
Hello old friend. As you know, I have loved your writings, (I still do), both your novels and your poems and above all, your golden success. You also once blessed me personally back when you alone chose to believe my allegations of rape at the hands of a black “brother” and you reached out to me privately when our white feminist sisters did not do so. You were there for me. You told me to tell the truth, that nothing else mattered as much.
Therefore, I will honor and “hear” you even if–especially if–we disagree on particular subjects. You believe that Barack Obama can somehow save our country. You are moved by his oratory and character. I am bowed beneath the weight of tribal sorrows and fear for our country and our world no matter who becomes the next American President.
But Alice: In your piece,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/01/barackobama.uselections2008 why oh why do you single out Israel as a wrong-doer and not Saudi Arabia? Israel but not the ethnic Arab Muslims of Sudan who are perpetrating genocide against black African Muslims and black Christians and who are mass raping black African girls and women? Israel and not Rwanda; Israel and not Iran, Libya, Algeria, Afghanistan, China, or North Korea, for their grieivous crimes against humanity? Why, Alice, why? You have got to know that anti-Semitism is also racism. Indeed, today, anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism and this pains me as much as the white racism and sexism of our feminist sisters once pained us both.Reverend Martin Luther King’s oratory and nobility also thrilled me. I was part of the Northern Student Movement. I volunteered in Harlem. I quickly ran into a rank, thuggish, increasingly criminal style of sexism against women, both white and black, and it drove me out of the civil rights movement at that time. It was becoming a movement that increasingly despised white volunteers, Jewish volunteers, and one in which black men viewed white women mainly as sexual prey.
Alice: We each have scars that ache when it rains.
I pray that you consider re-considering the ease with which you reflexively scapegoat Israel for the crimes of so many rogue nations.
And if you do, perhaps you might set an example for Obama who perhaps became accustomed to a Jew-blaming culture in his Chicago Church.Yours in struggle,
PhyllisP.S. Do you really think our imperfect America is as bad as most other imperfect countries? And Cuba? It is a totalitarian prison camp which has persecuted its own, including artists, politicals, homosexuals. Are you so charmed by Castro’s dancing that you have forgotten all this?
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And from JUSTICE4mothers.wordpress.com, and that’s all for today, folks:
December 22, 2009
Alabama Mother Killed by Father During Child Exchange
Be careful out there…this is happening way too much. May dear Hollie rest in peace.
Officials: Mom killed by father of kids during meeting for parental exchange
Senior Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 21, 2009 at 11:42 p.m.
A Lauderdale County woman was shot and killed by the father of her children while they were meeting for a parental exchange Monday morning, authorities said.
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