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SANDY ASPER

A Different Perspective

Candidate for NMUSD Board of Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A LETTER TO MY GRANDCHILDREN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Hi Kristin, Justin, Samantha, Mary, Patrick, and Peter, (and your parents)  

Remember this day.

In 1937, the year that I was born, here is what black people COULD NOT DO:

Drink from the same fountain as white people

Sit in the front of the bus or train

Eat at the same restaurants Go to the same church

Sit in the front of the bus Sit in the front of the movie theater

Shop in some of the same stores Go to the same schools as white people

Live in the same neighborhood as white people

Have jobs that white people wanted

and had to get off the sidewalk if a white person was walking down in the opposite way.

In Maine where I grew up, there were almost no black people, and God love your great grandmother Hazel, who had NO prejudice at all. She taught me that everyone was absolutely equal; that no one person was better than another. Even so, for years I held my breath when a black person happened to be near me so I wouldn't breathe the same air. I actually suggested to a black woman. when I was about 3  years old that she needed to take a bath and get all that black off her. My mother was horrified. but I was a child. Some people did things like this but THEY WERE ADULTS.  

One of the songs that my mother used to sing to me was confusing but made me feel close to black people. It went like this:

Now honey you stay in your own back yard,

Don't you mind what the white folks say,

Just go out and play as much as you like,

But stay in your own back yard.  

And that was the message to black people (African Americans) "stay in your own back yard", but thank God, that didn't happen.

It's been a long hard fight to help people understand that EVERYONE REALLY IS EQUAL and should have equal rights  

The heroes of the movement to make black people really equal are many:  

Abraham Lincoln

Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth

Fredrick Douglas

Susan B. Anthony

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr

Eleanor Roosevelt

JFK

Lyndon Johnson

and many more...

In my lifetime, I have known about black people being hanged by men in white sheets (KKK), beaten, shot, and in the Civil Rights marches led by Martin Luther King Jr., beaten by hoses, attacked by dogs, dragged to jail, and killed in other more horrible ways.

It has never been safe to be black.

But today ...today on this very day, we will have a black president. Remember this day, it is amazing and just right.  

Love,

Grammy  

 

Just email....

sasper@aol.com

and I will send you a book ASAP.

All I ask is that:

1. You use it

2. If you like it, tell someone and refer them to www.sandyasper.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE STORY


      In 1993, a friend of mine died and I didn't know there was a funeral, so I didn't go. That led me to thinking about how anyone would know about such an important event if they didn't live in the immediate area? How would anyone know enough to be able to write the obit? What kind of a funeral would they want? What words would they want to leave to friends and family? Who was going to pick up crazy Aunt Millie at the airport? What had been paid for? Who was going to get the watch and the ring?  I  always thought that someone should write something about it.     

    When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, I found myself with time to write THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT I MIGHT DIE...SOMEDAY( a Light-Hearted Workbook).     

    This book is really not for people who are dying; it's for those of us who think we're never going to die, and really don't want to think about it; so I decided to make it as funny as possible. It is a little corny, and a little funny, but also a very easy way to decide things that can only be decided by you.  

  Remember this is your book ...but always write in pencil because things change.

 

1. Send a check for $12 and I will email you a PDF file (so that you can read it online and just print the pages you want or the whole book).

OR

2. Send me a check for $27 and I will send you the book by snail-mail.

OR

3. Send me a check for $16 and I will send the CD by snail-mail.

 

Sandy Asper

1553 Miramar Dr.

Newport Beach, CA 92661

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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