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<DIV><FONT size=4>This reminded me of a story. I was teaching RS1, in
Wisconsin, I think, at a mostly all-white church. Our team included
Sheila? Smith?, a 5th City preschool teacher, a black community woman.
Sheila led the Guernica. She asked the art form question, "What colors do
you see?" Someone said, "Flesh color." Sheila, very coolly,
responded, "What color is that?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Karen Bueno</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 6/3/2012 2:09:05 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
icabombay@igc.org writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Herman,
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>A couple of personal stories. In 1968 (I believe) the Cleveland
Metro organized a Black Heritage course and Harrison Sims arrived as one of
the pedagogues. I forgot who the second one was, but he was white.
A group of black power people came to the course, determined to disrupt
it and get it canceled. We had close to 100 participants. I
believe it was in the opening conversation when one of the men stood up and
walked out, very slowly and deliberately. A few seconds later, another.
Then over the next 2-3 minutes about another half dozen or so did
likewise. It was their assumption that others would follow, leaving us
with just a few participants and an obvious failure. But no one else
left and so after a while the group came back in. They demanded all
white people get out (there were just a few metro colleagues there) so we did.
Harrison was cool and collected and continued on with the course.
I had to leave, but I remember how scared I was and how proud I was of
Harrison. The course got great reviews from almost all who
attended.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>A second story.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>My greatest learning and teaching experience happened when I taught with
Carlos Ollison. I was part of the national LENS faculty in the mid-70's
and was working at BF Goodrich. On Wednesday, when the assignments post
worked out the faculties for each weekend event I got a call (I think from
Robert Porter) assigning me to a LENS to be taught at the maximum security
prison near Richmond Virginia. Seems the chaplain was an RS I grad and a
colleague and had set it up. When I heard what I was to teach and where,
I just died inside and said "I'm not sure I can get Friday off" (a lie).
A Thursday call came and they said I could arrive on Saturday, no
problem. Now I was faced with a moral dilemma, follow my fears and not
accept it, or say yes and die! Along with Carlos and Georgeanna McBurney
was a woman from the Indianapolis House (forgot her name) who was a
professional corrections officer. Carlos started the sessions with a
conversation; "Name, Where from, and why are you here"? Around the table
we went, "Murder", "Bank Robbery", "Forgery", "Manslaughter, etc. were the
answers. Now I was <U>really</U> dying inside. Since LENS is about
a group creating a vision for the future and this group had no future, I
wanted to just get the hell out of there before something happened!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Carlos was just fantastic! He received every answer and then set a
context for the 44 hour session. Armed guards were descreetly placed
around the edges of the room. We sang, created a vision (this was before
the revised LENS), Team 14 Points, and several other documents. We did
the Social Process lectures as well as all the conversations. And we
sang! At first they were terrible at it, off key and reluctant.
But Carlos just boomed it out and soon they did too. By the time
we ended I swear I would have put my life in the hands of some of them!
What a transformation. Nobody was talking about why they were
there, no judgements, just a future to be called forth, which they indeed
cared about, even though they were in prison for years to come. At the
end Carlos asked them to pick the song they would like to sing to close with.
They picked "The Impossible Dream". It was as if grace had filled
the room. The voices were firm, on tune and soaring. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Afterwards the assistant warden came up shaking his head. All he
could say was "I don't believe it, I don't believe it, if I hadn't seen it
with my own eyes"! "These men could never say what they did!" He
was profoundly moved. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Afterward:</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>A week later I got a letter in the mail from one of the
participants. I still have it. In part he wrote: "I got back
to the cell and I was so sad to see all of you (the four of us) leave. I
was sitting there, listening to the radio, when they played The Impossible
Dream. I kept asking myself; "Who are these people, and why did they
come?" The only answer I could come up with was; "They came because they
care". </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>And to think I almost refused the invitation that would change my life
forever. Wow! Thank you Carlos, and all the others who opened my
eyes (and heart).</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Grace & Peace,</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Jack<BR>
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<DIV>On Jun 3, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Herman Greene wrote:</DIV><BR
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
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the Atlanta House reminded me of Ruth Gilbert, who was there with her
grandson Dante during the summer '86 Imaginal Education course at <ST1:PLACE
w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Spelman</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
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6/3/2012 11:10:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, <A
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Marcella off the list I sent earlier—She was a force of beauty, strength,
and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to <ST1:CITY
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and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful
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