- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
A small point for the overall discussion; a matter of huge appreciation for me:
Not only am I grateful that Salon and Walter Shapiro have given Bill Ayers this opportunity to speak and be heard, but for personal reasons having to do with me and Chicago, "race", politics, arguments and hope [whew; I said a mou'ful?! ;-)] I'm especially grateful for the section discussing the nature of the Hyde Park/University of Chicago "neighborhood".
I don't post here at Salon.com very often any more. I'm ?"the wrong generation"?. Too old. That doesn't mean that I care any less than I always have about the many issues being -- here as every where -- sometimes discussed and sometimes being used as soap boxes for rants. It just means that I have to ?"conserve"? my personal energies (as well as doing what I can to participate with all of us in the conservation of ?"natural resources"?; not to mention unnatural dwindling resources such as nickels and dimes). [What was I saying about soap boxes? ;-)]
As someone who declined going to the University of Chicago when, at age 15 I would have been eligible, because on visiting Chicago I felt I would be overwhelmed by the city and university "bigness", noise &etc, my first -- second-hand -- introduction to the Hyde Park U. of Chicago neighborhood was via some special and greatly beloved friends with whom I'd lived (in the greater Boston area) as part renter part "au pair girl" during subsequent student days who were as left-wing kooky and ?!"communist"!? associated as I. They made a work-related choice to move to U. of Chicago and Hyde Park and I was launched into the next ?chapitre? of my decidedly roccoco life story. Like Jesse Jackson (Sr.) -- whom I (much later) "almost" got a chance to work for at Rainbow Push during his unsuccessful run for the presidency) I (ethnic "white" if this is relevant) cried on the news of the election of our new president-elect.
We've all "come a long way, baby". Heartfelt thank-yous to everyone here at Salon.com -- even [partly maybe especially?! ;-)] those of you whose er um writing style (and/or actual opinions) have sometimes left me almost tearing out what few hairs still manage to grow out of my wizened head.
salonmarte
