Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
(A Personal Perspective)
by
Charles W. Bevel
01 Taking the course, "Slovenian in Perspective" was a
for me", I became firmly convinced that I really did have a much
better sense, than did others, of what was good for me. Or at
least a better sense of what felt good to me. And the use of
what feels good for deciding what is good, as provincial as it
I can.
And taking the time to know something of another place, and its
between the two of us that had caused him to stay there on that
the world and their place in it. Change and chance is the
mind. A big black hole loomed between West Germany and Russia.
with that name. My mind raced back to the early 1950s, when I
old. During my first summer I had stood toe to toe and slugged
spend it all at the corner store buying pretzel sticks and other
money would go into the cash box of the 79th Street bus line. I
would ride all day, transferring and repaying when I had to. I
might be like. The resentment came not from the fact that they
were enemy soldiers, but from the fact that they were "white"
and thus were treated much better than we, the black cotton
Slovenians?
08 Before the quarter started, I had thought to go to the
head start on filling in the black hole between West Germany and
the question behind the question. And the answer had to do with
the similarity between that student and my childhood friend who
tidal wave of changes that was now breaking over central Europe,
his intent or not, the things being shoved into the "black hole"
way.
would find the time to talk with her after the quarter was over.
13 One of the most moving moment that I was to spend with Dr.
with a God given right to know more about freedom than anyone
time to be put into place had the Russian tanks failed to crush
the Roman Empire that lead to the Diaspora, through the bloody
pogroms whose names forms a litany that sounded like the roll
know what I would feel. I would feel just what I now feel for
the Palestinians.
of how the present Jewish state came into being, it is hard not
through the centuries. (It had to. Before the present state of
Israel, there had not been a Jewish army since Masada.) Yet
and education has run like a deep ocean current carrying in its
swells the gifts of science and common sense. Science tells one
what is. Common sense tells one how to deal with what is.
across the face of Europe for two thousand years, ending with
can flee when the anti-Semitic monster raises his head again.
you become like the monster. The monster was (and is) European
the State of Arizona and provide them with nine billion dollar a
year until the deserts there bloomed like the one's in Israel?
to another Jew, again, that plan would still makes more sense to
me than the present one. But even if such a plan was carried
was killing Jews and Americans, yet they were treated better
than I. At noon time they were trucked into town to eat at one
nationalists feel.
poisonous has rubbed off onto my skin. Every time I have pushed
on a locked door, something foul and smelly has come off onto my
the first floor of Rhodes Tower. The doors slid open and I
gets included, who excluded? Who does the including, and the
served in the armed forces. Yet I have never truly felt any
for anything, why should I? Both the African and Choctaw blood
and those who truly "died" for it. The rest of the blood in my
common sense.
29 Nations and nationalities need histories, whether they are
isn't it? Again, I don't feel a personal need for one, not
need them. And for that reason, and that reason alone, I think
that they should exist. Our needs for nations are founded
some white people fear black people. I think that there should
white people. The fears are real. That some men would rather
let others starve rather than share is a real thing. For that
live a white nation somewhere! The fear that the greed of some
somewhere!
Sometimes they will only stop when a group of men with like
equipment say, "Don't come this way, or we will blow your asses
off!"
still like us more than any other animal that I have ever
others can be found. And more often than not, they are all that
can be found.
personal hopes and dreams can grow eternal. Yet nations are
Some of those stones will be more durable than others, but none
resides.
in a personal way what his heart feels. I don't know where his
faith and hope resides. But having heard him speak about
what I had talked about or wanted to write for his class. I had
faster than the news media can account for it, so it seemed that
this quarter has moved from fall to winter faster than I could
will not affect whatever grade I will have gotten from him, I
what extent I don't know yet. I do know that the "black hole"