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1984-04-08 Doris Davenport to The Ad Hoc Committee of Women Against Racism Page 1

4.8.84

to: The Ad Hoc Committee of Women Against Racism, WRAC, and other involved groups & individuals who sponsored the anti-racism workshop on April 8, 1984

from: Doris Davenport, author of "The Pathology of Racism" among other things, and victimised by the above name's arrogance and ignorance ...

This letter is to reiterate what I said this morning, to concretely and specifically detail the reparations which I expect for your blatant abuse of my rights.
   FIRST, your letter of apology is inadequate, unacceptable, and still, irresponsible. Your abuse of, and access to my essay, my private home phone, my time and my name, while you all remain unnamed (in the letter) and anonymous is very similar to the behavior of anonymous, whit-clas, Klu Klux Klan members, as they harrass, specifically any black person that they choose to. You will therefore re-write that letter naming y articular. (Your expressed "regret" is insufficient.) As Lorna read the letter to me, it included a section on how your abuse of my rights was akin to patriarchal abuses of women. Reinstate that clause. It is correct. As for any women of color who are involved in this cultural imperialist act, obviously, you are confused. Consorting with the enemy, and being used. (And while I'm at it, as I said before I don't care what any women said to you, after the fact, about using her materials. There were also black slaves who said that slavery was the best thing to happen to them. They, also, were confused.) Finally the individual members / women of the Ad Hoc Committee should each sign her name under their typed names, on the revised apology letter. 
     Secondly, inasmuch as you distributed the packet without the knowledge or consent of any of the authors. I think that letter of apology should also acknowledge your irresponsibility to all those writers, and the letter should be published in the WRAC newsletter. My point is that your abuse of my rights was doubly insulting, since almost all of you, especially the white women involved, knew me. However, I spoke, and speak, for the rights. legal and otherwise, of all the wimmin whose

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4.8.84 to: The Ad Hoc Committee of Women Against Racism, WRAC, and other involved groups & individuals who sponsored the anti-racism workshop on April 8, 1984 from: Doris Davenport, author of "The Pathology of Racism" among other things, and victimised by the above name's arrogance and ignorance ... This letter is to reiterate what I said this morning, to concretely and specifically detail the reparations which I expect for your blatant abuse of my rights. FIRST, your letter of apology is inadequate, unacceptable, and still, irresponsible. Your abuse of, and access to my essay, my private home phone, my time and my name, while you all remain unnamed (in the letter) and anonymous is very similar to the behavior of anonymous, whit-clas, Klu Klux Klan members, as they harrass, specifically any black person that they choose to. You will therefore re-write that letter naming y articular. (Your expressed "regret" is insufficient.) As Lorna read the letter to me, it included a section on how your abuse of my rights was akin to patriarchal abuses of women. Reinstate that clause. It is correct. As for any women of color who are involved in this cultural imperialist act, obviously, you are confused. Consorting with the enemy, and being used. (And while I'm at it, as I said before I don't care what any women said to you, after the fact, about using her materials. There were also black slaves who said that slavery was the best thing to happen to them. They, also, were confused.) Finally the individual members / women of the Ad Hoc Committee should each sign her name under their typed names, on the revised apology letter. Secondly, inasmuch as you distributed the packet without the knowledge or consent of any of the authors. I think that letter of apology should also acknowledge your irresponsibility to all those writers, and the letter should be published in the WRAC newsletter. My point is that your abuse of my rights was doubly insulting, since almost all of you, especially the white women involved, knew me. However, I spoke, and speak, for the rights. legal and otherwise, of all the wimmin whose