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Farm Report: Green Bean Conundrum
Steamy. Feels like the Deep South. The skeeters have finally roused themselves after being mysteriously low key for months. My crops are coming in nicely. But I must confess that I am not entirely pleased.
First, there is the fact that my crops are, fundamentally, beneath contempt. My farm looks far too much like a small patch of vegetables in a suburban backyard. There is no grandeur to this agricultural endeavor. There is no sense of participation in the 10,000-year-old experiment of wresting from the earth our daily bread. We scan the yard in vain for any sign of a tractor. There's not even a riding lawn mower. The mower is electric: It emits an unsatisfying hum. How can one take oneself seriously as a man of the soil when one's only piece of farm machinery sounds like an electric razor?
I've seen coffee grinders with more machismo than my mower.
My tomatoes look reasonable, though it does not promise to be a spectacular harvest. I'm already anticipating that friends will show up to pilfer all the best tomatoes. Pilferers, one and all: They just take and take and take and take and take. We desperately need a chain link fence and a bad dog. We need to start thinking defense around here.
The biggest problem of all -- the thing that haunts me, and keeps me from sleeping peacefully at my desk -- is the loneliness of the bean patch. Green beans are a great crop, because they're the only thing that grows faster than weeds. You drop the beans in the dirt and within 60 days you've got food for the table. Boil 'em with a ham hock, or steam 'em with butter and lemon juice: Yum. But the fact is, we've ceased to be a society in which the bean harvest is viewed as a cause for celebration. People don't crave green beans. Let's blurt it out: Beans are boring. The tomatoes hog the glory; the beans are shunned, derided, mocked and fundamentally ignored, like my blog.
What I need to grow is something people really want to eat, like lobster. I need to learn how to grow sea scallops, or dill pickles, or cheese fondue, or chocolate mousse. Someone needs to invent some vegetables that aren't so ... you know ... vegetal.
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It must be said: We're all atwitter about Vitter!
"This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter, 46, said [the 'of course' keeping it from being a completely absurd statement, though it still is classic Washington-speak] in a statement, which his spokesman, Joel DiGrado, confirmed to the Associated Press.
"Several years ago, I asked for and received [can we see the sworn affidavit on that??] forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling," Vitter continued. "Out of respect for my family [and because I'm horribly embarrassed by this], I will keep my discussion of the matter there -- with God and them [and the campaign contributors who are now fleeing as though I have leprosy]. But I certainly [of course, to be sure, in point of fact, as it were] offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way [actually I know what way I let them down but let's keep it bland and general]."
And yeah, I checked the Palfrey website. Server down. Crashed.
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The Boy On The Bus: Annotations
Today at 1 p.m. I'll do an online chat about my story on busing and school integration. You can send in a question in advance.
Here's the article. I'm going to pull out a few graphs here and there for annotation.
The Supreme Court had issued a desegregation order. It was 1970. Men had landed on the moon twice. Now white kids and black kids would go to the same schools.
This was, obviously, a full 16 years after Brown v. Board of Education. In the meantime the segregationists had figured out all kinds of ways to delay integration. They seized upon the Court's edict that schools integrate "with all deliberate speed." Deliberate, they argued, meant very slow. An African American man named Virgil Hawkins spent the better part of a decade, starting in 1949, trying to get into the University of Florida law school. In 1957, the Florida Supreme Court rejected his appeal, saying "violence in university communities and a critical disruption of our universities would occur if Negro students are permitted to enter the white universities at this time." The court said that Hawkins could continue to plead his case, but only if he could prove that his presence at the all-white school wouldn't cause "great public mischief."
There was a lot of hysteria in the air. John Rawls, a state senator from Marianna, declared, "The integration of the white and Negro races in the public schools of the state of Florida would tend to encourage the reprehensible, unnatural abominable, abhorrent, execrable and revolting practice of miscegenation which is recognized, both in conscience and by the law of the state of florida as a criminal offense."
Desegregation came about only through much trauma and struggle by a few idealistic civil rights leaders ...
I believe UF's law school accepted its first black student in 1958. In 1964, Rev. Thomas Wright filed a suit that resulted in a few black students integrated Gainesville High School, among them his daughter, LaVon. LaVon Wright (now LaVon Bracy) has written an account of what it was like to be the first black senior at GHS. Excerpt:
'On that first day, Dad drove me to school followed by a Gainesville police car. I received stares, and was called all kinds of nigger. No one spoke to me. No one sat near me. I could expect each day to have some white male or female spit on me and call me nigger. I began to hate. The thought of looking at someone with white skin made me sick.
'After about a month at the school, a group of white boys jumped me and beat me bloody. No one offered any assistance. The principal said, "How do I know that you did not come to school bloody from your home? I did not see anyone mistreat you." '
"We had to know what integration was like," [Rev.] Wright said. "It was not exactly what we thought it would be."
Here's a summary of the 1970 Supreme Court decision, from the Gainesville Sun:
'An even greater change took place in January 1970, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Alachua County schools to desegregate.
'Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 in Brown vs. Board of Education that separate schools for blacks and whites was unconstitutional, black students didn't enter a white school in Alachua County until 1965, after a local black preacher, the Rev. Thomas Wright, sued the school board on behalf of his daughter, Lavon Wright.
'During the late '60s, the school board practiced an informal policy of "tokenism" -- whereby a few black students attended predominantly white schools, said John Dukes Jr., a longtime Alachua County educator who is now assistant superintendent for student support services with the Alachua County schools.
'But in January 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the county's schools were still "racially identifiable" and ordered Alachua County to fully integrate the schools immediately.
'The schools closed on Jan. 29, 1970. When they reopened a week later, on Feb. 7, they were integrated. The black high school, Lincoln High School, was closed, and about 1,000 black students were transfered to the 2,200-student Gainesville High School.'
Washington Post researcher Magda Jean-Louis dug up some great articles from that era, and I strongly recommend reading the Buddy Davis editorials (click on Appendix). Davis won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his editorials about the desegregation of the schools in Alachua County.
Bill Cliett, the former vice principal at Duval, made an interesting comment: That for all the difficulties of school
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