Pipe down please.  My comments were written to my wife.  I did not know it was going to be distributed widely.  However, New York City is the pun of many good natured jokes out West; my use of the term black was not meant in any derrogatory sense, I'm a Jazz fan and I do hope the staff at the Louie Armstrong Museum is predominently black, just asd in my line of work in Native Amwerican art we try are best to balance the ethnicity of our staff without any expalnation except southwestern Ammerican Indian people are mst appropriate to interpret their own culture; and $40,000 is not much to live on in the Big Apple in my opinion.

>>> Julie Collins <[log in to unmask]> 08/18/98 01:23PM >>>
Yes.  I does not matter your ethiniciy is to raise money, design
exhibitions, create programs, design resources, etc.  if you are qualified
in the focus of the museum. I guess I could not work at the aquarium
because I am not a fish, even though I would consider to be a dolphin!



At 01:38 PM 8/18/1998 -0500, Robert T. Handy wrote:
>I sure hope this does not get me into trouble again, but I must admit that
>when I see an ad for a position at an institution with some kind of focus
>on Africa, African-American music, art, culture, history, etc., I simply
>assume they are looking for African-American candidates and that I as an
>Anglo, would not be considered for the position.  Therefore, I do not
>apply.  Is this such an outlandish assumption?
>
>
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>Robert Handy
>Brazoria County Historical Museum
>100 East Cedar
>Angleton, Texas  77515
>(409) 864-1208
>museum_bob
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>From:   Gary Crockett and Jenny Olman[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] 
>Sent:   Tuesday, August 18, 1998 9:37 AM
>To:     [log in to unmask] 
>Subject:        civility or side stepping equity
>
><<File: ATT00006.html>>
>Thankyou David Harvey. Of course this is a far more relevant issue for
>discussion.
>
>If the larger issues of affirmative action had been raised, as some of the
>commentary has suggested might be behind Mr. Herrings comments, then that
>would be a legitimate "issue" for discussion on the list.
>
>The delight in vilifying Herring and, as such, side stepping this
>considerably more pressing issue seems to imply that the idea of supportive
>bias or preferential treatment in the interests of equity, access and
>inclusion holds little favour in the cultural sector. How long can we
>delude ourselves that the playing field is level? In our institution, under
>government support, applicants with specific cultural backgrounds are
>openly sought for certain positions.
>
>Gary Crockett
>Curator
>Hyde Park Barracks Museum
>Sydney Australia
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>website www.hht.nsw.gov.au 
>
>
Julie Collins
Curator of Education
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
1967 South Campus Drive
Evanston, Il 60208
Tel. (847)491-4852
Fax  (847)467-4609
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