Comments on: Writer’s Island: Time Travel http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/ Embracing the World in which I live Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:46:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: LittleWing http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-396 LittleWing Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:22:49 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-396 memphis, right in the thick of things.. just recently saw a tv program called banished... blacks kicked out of their own homes, leave or be killed..lost everything..including their land... it was in harrison county arkansas... i think... and reading this today... it is a sad, sad day that it continues ~ I must point out this story happened in 1969, hopefully it is not the norm of today. memphis, right in the thick of things.. just recently saw a tv program called banished… blacks kicked out of their own homes, leave or be killed..lost everything..including their land… it was in harrison county arkansas… i think… and reading this today… it is a sad, sad day that it continues

~ I must point out this story happened in 1969, hopefully it is not the norm of today.

]]> By: pepektheassassin http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-395 pepektheassassin Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:44:22 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-395 Well written piece, and interesting. Thanks for sharing this piece of your life, time traveling! ~ And thank you for your visit and very kind words. Well written piece, and interesting. Thanks for sharing this piece of your life, time traveling!

~ And thank you for your visit and very kind words.

]]> By: Constance http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-393 Constance Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:46:58 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-393 A wonderfully heartfelt piece! I enjoyed this very much. Great job. :) ~ Thank you for visiting and for your kind words. A wonderfully heartfelt piece! I enjoyed this very much. Great job. :)

~ Thank you for visiting and for your kind words.

]]> By: jeques http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-392 jeques Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:15:32 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-392 I, too, am colored having brown skin being an asian. It is great to know your perspective being white reading this post. I am an immigrant and only a year and 4 months here in Chicago when I moved in 2006 from the Philippines. My stay so far is great, I have few encounters with racism but not as worse as it used to be as you told them in this article. I wish you well. ~ Jeques ~ It genuinely pleases me you have not encountered the racism our country is noted for. I, too, am colored having brown skin being an asian. It is great to know your perspective being white reading this post. I am an immigrant and only a year and 4 months here in Chicago when I moved in 2006 from the Philippines. My stay so far is great, I have few encounters with racism but not as worse as it used to be as you told them in this article.

I wish you well.

~ Jeques

~ It genuinely pleases me you have not encountered the racism our country is noted for.

]]> By: UL http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-391 UL Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:36:52 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-391 Thanks for stopping by my blog which in turn brought me to yours and this wonderful post. ..you have voiced your opinions so beautifully, racism still exists, applause to you to point it out and make a stand...thank you for sharing. ~ You are most welcome, and please, visit again. Thanks for stopping by my blog which in turn brought me to yours and this wonderful post. ..you have voiced your opinions so beautifully, racism still exists, applause to you to point it out and make a stand…thank you for sharing.

~ You are most welcome, and please, visit again.

]]> By: preethi http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-385 preethi Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:43:22 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-385 Very interesting and thought provoking...racism is so shocking.. and it is all the more powerful to read a first hand essay on it. Brilliant! read my take <a href="http://celebratingcreativity.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-live-on.html" rel="nofollow"> I live on...</a> ~ Thank you for visiting and for your praises. I did read your poem on the creature who spans all the years of travel. Very interesting. Very interesting and thought provoking…racism is so shocking.. and it is all the more powerful to read a first hand essay on it. Brilliant!

read my take I live on…

~ Thank you for visiting and for your praises. I did read your poem on the creature who spans all the years of travel. Very interesting.

]]> By: Robin http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-382 Robin Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:39:40 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-382 What an incredibly powerful essay you've written, even more so because it comes from the perspective of someone who lived through it and didn't just read about it. The times and target group may change, but sometimes ignorance and intolerance just jump up and scream to be heard. Just today another mother at the playground saw a somewhat effeminate teenager and went off for 20 minutes about homosexuals in a shockingly ignorant way very reminiscent of your Mrs. Goolsby. I stuck up for tolerance and diversity, but I doubt very much she heard a word I said. Sigh... ~ Sadly, you are probably correct. Those with closed minds can not hear, they can only talk. What an incredibly powerful essay you’ve written, even more so because it comes from the perspective of someone who lived through it and didn’t just read about it.

The times and target group may change, but sometimes ignorance and intolerance just jump up and scream to be heard. Just today another mother at the playground saw a somewhat effeminate teenager and went off for 20 minutes about homosexuals in a shockingly ignorant way very reminiscent of your Mrs. Goolsby. I stuck up for tolerance and diversity, but I doubt very much she heard a word I said.

Sigh…

~ Sadly, you are probably correct. Those with closed minds can not hear, they can only talk.

]]> By: Tumblewords http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-380 Tumblewords Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:20:54 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-380 Excellent writing and wise post! Many people haven't a clue about that part of history - it's still being distorted and carried forward. Thanks! ~ Thank you for visiting and for your words of praise. The interesting part of my story is it happened in 1969. To read history books today, one would think segregation ended many years earlier, but I know different, I was there and I saw it with my own eyes. It makes me wonder what else has been altered in our history books. Excellent writing and wise post! Many people haven’t a clue about that part of history – it’s still being distorted and carried forward. Thanks!

~ Thank you for visiting and for your words of praise. The interesting part of my story is it happened in 1969. To read history books today, one would think segregation ended many years earlier, but I know different, I was there and I saw it with my own eyes. It makes me wonder what else has been altered in our history books.

]]> By: AnthonyNorth http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-377 AnthonyNorth Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:44:20 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-377 This is a brilliant post. The race issue is complex indeed, if we allow it to be. Yet commonsense, and a sense of oneself with all, cuts straight through the crap. Loved it. ~ Thank you for visiting and for your words of praise. I am becoming so inspired by all these compliments! This is a brilliant post. The race issue is complex indeed, if we allow it to be. Yet commonsense, and a sense of oneself with all, cuts straight through the crap.
Loved it.

~ Thank you for visiting and for your words of praise. I am becoming so inspired by all these compliments!

]]> By: Linda Jacobs http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/writers-island-time-travel/#comment-376 Linda Jacobs Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:43:50 +0000 http://cricket51.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-376 Is this story copyrighted or anything because I'd love to use it as supplemental material when I teach <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>. It is so well written! Thanks! ~ Thank you so much - for you to want to use my writing for teaching the youth of today, would be such an honor for me. I would love to talk to you about using this piece. Is this story copyrighted or anything because I’d love to use it as supplemental material when I teach To Kill a Mockingbird. It is so well written! Thanks!

~ Thank you so much – for you to want to use my writing for teaching the youth of today, would be such an honor for me. I would love to talk to you about using this piece.

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