Alice, I liked your link and it is a fountain of good information to be sure.
However, I never met a single Republican that would be able to focus long enough to read your document.
You need to get your document down to 140 characters or, better, less than that.
Because: Republicans don't read much at all. They listen to the white man at the front of whatever their church is (Fox News Tucker Carslon or Sean Hannity), or pick the TV preacher of your choice spewing fire and brimstone followed by a call to support (give money).
You need to say short, authoritative sentences with high confidence, perhaps with a few expletives and THEN you can communicate with a Republican.
I tend to agree with you, Mike. I read the links and I did forward onto about a dozen people. I don't have social media accounts. I have often spoken and posted here about Katie Porter and her whiteboard. Quite frankly, although I admire the powerpoint from Alice, I agree with you that many of the "poorly educated" won't read it. It needs to be less scholarly, sadly, to attract the masses. And how important all the information contained in the power point is!!
Yes Miselle. Thomas Jefferson was always worried about an uneducated, poorly read population losing Democracy. Hence, his lifelong pursuit of good public education. Which did work for a while.
But. When whites had to go to school with blacks those white folks decided they would rather be ignorant and rolled out to private schools where, as we used to say, “they don’t learn Jack”.
Please do so. I appreciate any edit. Please remember that this is a teach in with facts and figures. The script helps those who are looking at the slides to understand their import. Actually, turning racists into empathetic civil rights' advocates is a tough assignment. But Senators Sinema, Manchin, Collins, Romney, Mulkowski and Porter are my targets. I think they have some ability to act with dignity. One can only hope.
Alice, I liked your link and it is a fountain of good information to be sure.
However, I never met a single Republican that would be able to focus long enough to read your document.
You need to get your document down to 140 characters or, better, less than that.
Because: Republicans don't read much at all. They listen to the white man at the front of whatever their church is (Fox News Tucker Carslon or Sean Hannity), or pick the TV preacher of your choice spewing fire and brimstone followed by a call to support (give money).
You need to say short, authoritative sentences with high confidence, perhaps with a few expletives and THEN you can communicate with a Republican.
I tend to agree with you, Mike. I read the links and I did forward onto about a dozen people. I don't have social media accounts. I have often spoken and posted here about Katie Porter and her whiteboard. Quite frankly, although I admire the powerpoint from Alice, I agree with you that many of the "poorly educated" won't read it. It needs to be less scholarly, sadly, to attract the masses. And how important all the information contained in the power point is!!
Yes Miselle. Thomas Jefferson was always worried about an uneducated, poorly read population losing Democracy. Hence, his lifelong pursuit of good public education. Which did work for a while.
But. When whites had to go to school with blacks those white folks decided they would rather be ignorant and rolled out to private schools where, as we used to say, “they don’t learn Jack”.
Please do so. I appreciate any edit. Please remember that this is a teach in with facts and figures. The script helps those who are looking at the slides to understand their import. Actually, turning racists into empathetic civil rights' advocates is a tough assignment. But Senators Sinema, Manchin, Collins, Romney, Mulkowski and Porter are my targets. I think they have some ability to act with dignity. One can only hope.