Annmarie Payne email #12

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From: Payne, Annmarie Janet <annmarie.j.payne@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 2007/3/16
Subject: Re: Vanderbilt Chancellor's defense of Klan founder
To: Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>

Dear Mr. Farley,

Firstly, thank you once again for trying to expedite this process and I
sincerely apologize for my late response. I have spoken to the board of
the BSA and we have been handling this as fast as we can. As you know it
is hard to get anyone to speak on these issues on campus. However, I will
not send this to the Tennessean on behalf of the BSA executive board
because this would be irresponsible of me and and jepordize our abilities
to carry anything on campus if we publically blast Chancellor Gee and Vice
Chancellor Sheonfeld. As stated before in the many emails that we have had
back and forth in the past couple of months, I am handling this. And if
the timetable I am working at is not to your liking please come to
Nashville and carry this out because we always need more man power.
However, I am a student first and my grades are my NUMBER ONE CONCERN!!!
So please once again be patient. And if you want to send this in to the
Tennessean please DELETE THE BLACK STUDENT ALLIANCE'S NAME and send this
in on your own behalf from your location. I am sorry I have to do this
but I can not have you jepordizing the organizations name and mine as
well. Please, I am begging you to not jepordize the strides we, the
African American, students have made on campus to better our status here.
As said before I am making sure that this is being spoken about and
handled but you have to be patient and understanding. And once again, I am
sorry to come off rude or uncaring because actually I am not I just want
you to understand that I am doing what I can to make sure this is handled
properly.

And I am blind carbon copying this email to my attorney just to make sure
that nothing is misunderstood and I have a witness to my statements to
you.

Sincerely,
Annmarie Payne

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Payne, Annmarie Janet
Vanderbilt University
Email: annmarie.j.payne@Vanderbilt.Edu

> Dear Annmarie,
>> I was wondering what the status of this is. If you are short of time, I
>> propose the following:
>>
>
>
> Send an open letter to the Hustler and the Tennessean (via Michael Cass)
> mcass@tennessean.com
> which says the following:
>
> "Dear Chancellor Gee:
> In 2002-2003, then-president of the Vanderbilt University Black Student
> Alliance Nia Toomer demanded in the Vanderbilt student newspaper, The
> Hustler, that you retract the racist statements you or your spokesman,
> Vice
> Chancellor Michael Schoenfeld, expressed regarding the slave-holding
> Confederacy. We note that to the best of our knowledge, despite your
> alleged
> former desire to change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall, you have
> never explicitly criticized the Confederacy. We give you the opportunity
> now to publicly state that the Confederacy was a great evil and
> Confederate
> leaders like KKK-founder Nathan Bedford Forrest committed crimes against
> humanity. If you do not state this by March 31, 2007, we will regard your
> refusal as support for the Confederacy, specifically for KKK-founder
> Nathan
> Bedford Forrest.
>
> Sincerely,
> The Black Student Alliance"
>
> This requires very little effort on your part.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>> Jonathan Farley
>> 1 876 446 3184
>>
>