[tblc-diversity] do we have a statement??

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<smaller><smaller>Carole, is there any official statement from your office? This article is in THE NATION (July 2,2001) that is on 
the stands and online now. Also on several national ALA lists including OIF, ALA Council, ALA MemberFORUM.

Original post from NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY.


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From:           	<color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Mark Rosenzweig <<iskra@earthlink.net></color>

<bold>Subject:        	<color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>[MEMBER-FORUM:2427] Anti-Semite as ALA spokesperson</bold></color>

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Forwarded, to my horror, by my  good friend Carol Reid of the NY State

Library and NYLA.


This is yet another example of the mindlessness, the indiscriminate

decision making, the bush-league consultants' influence to which we submit

ourselves, taking us into a world where "spin control" becomes an everyday

issue.


Will ALA take any responsibility for this  execrable choice of

spokesperson, driven by a mind-set from the coroporate world of

advertising and branding being promoted by ALA which is exactly the kind

of thing I have been at pains to remind ALA Inc of at every opportunity.


I demand tha this choice be publicly a) explained b) reversed c)

apologized for, not only by Florida but by ALA headquarters, the Exceutive

Board and President.


Mark Rosenzweig

Councilor at large


<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:50:28 -0400

>From: "Carol Reid" <<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>creid@MAIL.NYSED.GOV</underline><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>>

>To: <<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>srrtac-l@ala.org</underline><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>>, <<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>alaoif@ala1.ala.org</underline><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>>,

><<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>PLGNet-L@listproc.sjsu.edu</underline><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> Subject: Anti-Semite as ALA spokesperson


>Florida's "Born to Read" campaign, a national literacy program developed

>by the American Library Association, has chosen New York Knicks point

>guard Charlie Ward as their official spokesperson. Ward has also made a

>name for himself by declaring that "Jews are stubborn ... why did they

>persecute Jesus unless he knew something they didn't want to accept? ...

>They had his blood on their hands." Whose court is this ball in now? Does

>ALA bear any responsibility for this questionable choice of role model

>for young readers?

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>For an uncritical report of this "honor," see:

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>For a more trenchant analysis, see:

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>Carol Reid

>New York State Library