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To the Editor:
I am aghast. I am stunned. I am confused. I
am betrayed.
For the six years I ’ve lived in Portland, I ’ve
regarded Just Out as a responsible community
voice. I haven’t always agreed with positions you
have taken, but have perceived them as respon
sible.
Now the June “ Just th in k ” by A riel
Water worn an has me boggled. While certainly a
strongly worded article, I can support the vast
majority of what she wrote. But the first para
graph is so violent, so unjust, so irrational. And it
seems a mockery of the beautiful words spoken by
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a dream.”
Hopefully future issues will guard against such
irrational and vicious abuse of the power of the
press.
Rev. Gary Wilson
Portland
Bigotry is bigotry is bigotry
To the Editor:
I have just finished reading the article entitled
“I have a dream,” by Ariel Waterwoman on page
18 of the June issue of Just Out. First and
foremost, I am outraged that anyone would use
the “I have a dream” phrase from one of Dr.
King’s most powerful and moving speeches, as
the title for something as negative and as hateful
as the article to which I refer. Dr. King’s dream,
which many of us are trying to keep alive, was
about inclusiveness, harmony and love. The dream
expressed on page 18 of the June issue of Just Out
is full of vitriol and venom, not one inclusive,
harmonious or loving vision is contained therein.
How dare you use the words of a great leader in the
movements for justice, equality and peace as the
introduction to your mean spirited article.
That anyone would call for the forced steriliza
tion of any group of people, as is called for in the
first paragraph of this diatribe, is appalling. To
preface that hateful call with the “I have a dream”
phrase is to demean all that Dr. King and many of
the rest of us have stood and struggled for. Read
ing the hatred expressed in that one line, I heard
the voice of Adolph Hitler and saw men in white
hoods. In Just Out, the paper which calls for
equality in the acceptance of lesbians and gay
men, I read that a LESBIAN believes it is OK to
participate in the cycle of violence and hatred to
which we so adamantly object when we arc its
victims.
Yes, there is racism, sexism and homophobia
in America, it is part of our culture, it is what we
do, it is what we be. Yes, there is anger in
America, it is one of the few emotions respected
by this culture just as violence is a behavior this
culture respects. Yes. I want it to slop and I work
towards that end almost every day. But I know
that hatred will not win the world I want to see,
one free of the false divisions among us. I thought
the folks at Just O ut knew that too.
How dare Just Out, a major voice for the
lesbian and gay community in Oregon, use its
pages to promote bigotry then expect fair and
equitable treatment from others? It is inappropri
ate to use this newspaper as a vehicle for personal
anger and hatred. Shame on you Just Out, shame
on you Ariel Waterwoman, bigotry is bigotry is
bigotry.
Kathleen Saadat
Portland
Talking to each other
To the Editor:
This is a hard letter to write. I am a European-
American woman, raised in “ American” culture,
which means I am racist, having learned racism
along with the other cultural myths in our society.
I have been doing anti-racist work on a personal
level for some years, and realize I still have a long
ways to go to be a true ally to people of color.
I usually feel that an appropriate response to
expressions of anger by people o f color is respect
ful attention or, at the very least, silence. But I
have to respond to Ariel W aterwoman’s “I have a
dream” article. I understand that any white re
sponse to people of color is loaded with emotional
baggage, and it’s impossible for me to escape my
white privilege. Yet not to respond at all seems
even more disrespectful and divisive.
I looked through this article’s list of global
instances of white supremacy for the “one simple
thing that [I] can do every day which will help stop
racism.” It wasn’t there. Implying that complex
problems have simple solutions, that somehow if
we all just become aware o f these things, we
would renounce white supremacy and stop being
racist, is not helpful to anyone. If it were simple
to end oppression, most o f us would be doing it
already. The things I ’m doing, few of which are
simple, to address the problems I see certainly do
not mean that I ’m no longer racist or that I have no
further responsibility to the planet to end white
supremacy. But attacking European-Americans,
many of whom are struggling to find ways to be
allies, only perpetuates the old game and further
divides us, to the delight of those in power.
This letter is part o f my struggle to fight the
racism within, and to link it with my struggle
against internalized oppression: sexism, classism,
and heterosexism.
We do have to deal with the legacy of racism
and white supremacy, and the pain that it causes
us all. But I hope we don’t lose sight of the goal
of working together to end these evils. The means
we use to get to social justice are important in
themselves. The means shapes the end.
We need to find ways to talk to each other.
Sylvan Rainwater
Portland
Ju s t Outis not helpful
To the Editor:
In re c e n t issu e s o f J u s t O ut (Ariel
Waterwoman) has expressed several strong opin
ions about racism and violence in our commu
nity. I have found some of the ideas to be poorly
thought out and unconnected to any political
analysis, but I figured they at least stimulated
some o f us to think. (She has) gone way off the
deep end with the article entitled, “I have a dream.’
(June 1992) and I am writing to say that this article
is NOT helpful, useful, or acceptable in a newspa
per which represents me.
This kind of “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
thinking is so reactionary and out of step with the
pulse of the lesbian and gay community and the
greater Portland progressive community that I