Howdy-
If you could, go ahead and send me their contact info and I'll query them. That might be the best venue for a written version.
Thanks,
Barrett
Hi,
I'm probably not being entirely consistent, but I know some people get upset when you forward their contact information and it's not publically-available...so what I did was write Gary Younge and Gwyn Topham.
John Nichols of The Nation, who is referring to me in the third paragraph from the end of this piece
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/208 (I mention this in a previous email to you)
has never responded to my phone calls and emails, but he might be interested in running what you write as well.
I'm guessing this is him:
John Nichols, (608) 252-6482
http://host.madison.com/ct/article_ae12cde8-8474-11de-a04c-001cc4c03286.html
John Nichols <jnichols@madison.com>
Mike Burke of Democracy Now had considered putting me on the show, but never did.
Mike Burke <mike@democracynow.org>Regards,
Jonathan
P.S. In the mid-1990's Time Magazine published a letter from me, responding to an essay of Krauthammer's in support of Proposition 209, which eliminated affirmative action in California. Someone quoted from my letter (I don't know if they quoted it accurately):
"If Alabama had held a referendum on segregation in the 1950s or on slavery in the 1850s, wickedness would have won each time. Krauthammer calls it `democracy' when a numerically stronger group (whites) forces the numerically weaker group (Blacks) to do its will. Enlightened men call it tyranny."
Then I got a racist letter in my mailbox, which struck me as odd, because this was well before the web was so advanced, I was renting an apartment that was attached to a house---so I'm not even sure if my address was on any public documents---and the letter in Time Magazine only said I was from Berkeley. But the racists are so persistent, they will work hard to find out where you are and write to you, even if all you've done is publish a letter in a magazine.