The Civil Rights Movement was  due to intelligent and courageous individuals who decided "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE!" Individuals whose efforts should be remembered, we live in an urban society and should not allow 
people who have chosen to relocate to rural suburbs and resurrect  past evils by creating their own philosophies on life and society to influence or taint urban cosmopolitanism.
     By being silent and accepting the status-quo along with new forms of racism, we repeat that type of behaviour that caused us to remain as history, society and early Hollywood depicted: ignorant and easy.
     Many people have become indifferent to this new form of racial cleansing, many are content reaping the benefits they would never have been allowed to even hope for only a few decades ago and that makes them a laughing stock. SPEAK OUT AGAINST SEGREGATION!  In this ultra-modern world, why would anyone feel she must demand that of the mass?  I DO NOT CONDONE SEGREGATION NOR WOULD I EVER BE SILENT ON THE MATTER, IT IS ONE OF MY DUTIES AS A WOMAN OF COLOUR.
     What does it prove-the desire for sameness? An inability to accept progress and maturity? Most likely.

Gabrielle Lin
23August1999       


POSTNOTE:  In reference to 1 August Tapestry:
                        From the National Alliance of Businesses:
                       "Youngsters seeking work at more than 10,000
                          businesses from McDonald's to IBM, are find-
                         ing they cannot hide from a spottry academic
                         career: Their high school records are being re-
                         quested by companies worried that poor grades
                         and lax attendance might suggest an employment

                         risk."  August 17, 1999

                        Related Postnote: From Zero Populaiton Growth:
                        Birmingham is "an unhealthy environment for
                        raising children...teen pregnancy, poverty and
                        education cited; city ranks 105 out of 112 cities."
                        Birmingham News