lovely, Gerald, moving. thanks.
too few like him....
Doug
On 28-Jan-10, at 5:54 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> Howard Zinn Is Dead Maybe it was in some movie maybe it
> was in a dream but I seem to remember
> Howard Zinn as tour guide on a double-decker bus crusing our
> country our world speaking
> on how "Columbus was met by Arawah
> men and women, naked, tawny, full of wonder...
> just look, will you, at what happened..."
> "Down this way we have," he'd tell us, "To the
> Empire and its people... To Teddy Roosevelt
> welcoming any war any war at all anywhere"
> Then we'd continue through "CarterReaganBush
> that consensus protecting corporate interests
> in any place in any where at all time any old
> right-wing tyranny abroad..." And
> just when the prospect for our times of turmoil
> also seemed an insurmountable struggle... Howard
> Zinn, microphone in hand beamed through
> the tour bus's P.A. "There's still inspiration,
> I'm still inspired!"
> Gerald S.
>
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