[Alumni-chat] Legal Fund Needs - by Yazz Allen '66

[J. David Coldren]

Bob,

Thanks for your kind words. I reciprocate in my respect for you. I enjoyed
our visits in my home.

Don't worry about the implied threats, I've had actual threats (I believe
they called them contracts) against me for years by professional criminals
and gangbangers. I just take life as it comes and try to influence the
future in tiny ways.


J. David Coldren '65


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-----Original Message-----
From: alumni-chat-bounces at w3.antioch.edu
[mailto:alumni-chat-bounces at w3.antioch.edu] On Behalf Of bdevine
(bdevine at antioch-college.edu)
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:47 PM
To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
Subject: Re: [Alumni-chat] Legal Fund Needs - by Yazz Allen '66

Let us now proceed to purge the non-ideologically pure from our midst.

Mark P. '71 
He started it!

I guess I'll just stand here and get purged instead, eh, Mark?

Folks,

I can laugh at the image of me as a wizard, I can rankle at being compared
to Tom Delay, and I still roll on the floor when I see the bunny with the
pancake on its head.  But I'm more than a little uncomfortable with the ad
hominems directed toward David.  I've known David since we were both
undergraduates, and though most often I find myself 180 degrees at odds with
his perspectives, I've always respected David, have valued my conversations
and interactions with him, and most of the time have learned something from
him.   Like most good Antiochians, David challenges assumptions, reframes
the discourse, tweaks the posers and pretenders and applies critical reason
to the conventional wisdoms.  Sometimes he makes me mad as hell, and pushes
me beyond civility, but his contributions to this discourse ought to be as
thoroughly and critically examined and evaluated as any and all others. 

When I see David's house posted along with the very personal stuff, I feel
compelled to respond.  The only time I saw an image of my home in an e-mail
message, it was from a cop, angry that Mumia Abu Jamal was going to be
permitted to speak at Antioch's commencement.  The words accompanying the
image said, "I know where you live, I've seen you in your bedroom window,
you're dead meat."  The image was such an unimaginable invasion and threat
that it still haunts me.  I would not like for anyone else to experience
that sense of violation of personal space, and I would not like to see the
dialogue devolve to personal attack.    

If my expressed anger precipitated these ad hominem attacks, I sincerely
apologize.  I would hope that we could deal with differences with good humor
and civility.  There is so much to be done, and it will require all of us to
meet the challenges ahead.  


Bob


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