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Silverfoxesclub-digest
Friday, February 08 2001
Volume 01 : Number 135

In this issue:

-Black history lesson
-Ashcroft and the Log Cabin failure
-A fairy tale (3)
-Gay News Roundup (3)

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From: "Robert Feinstein" harlynn@panix.com
Subject: black history lesson

This was sent to me by an Africa-American friend named Linda who is also blind.

Bob and Harley

1. What African American politician was known as the "Harlem Fox"?
a. J. Raymond Jones
b. Al Sharpton
c. Tavis Smiley

2. What Olympian became a McDonalds operator?
a. Dominique Daws
b. Michael Jordan
c. Edith Duvall

3. Where was the first historically Black college founded?
a. Nashville in 1830
b. Atlanta in 1845
c. Philadelphia in 1832

4. Who was the Black surgeon who led the first successful operation to separate Siamese twins?
a. Benjamin Spock
b. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.
c. Peter Benton

5. Who wrote the 1994 Time Magazine cover story on the new Black Renaissance in art?
a. Sybil Wilkes
b. Tom Joyner Sr.
c. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

6. Who was the Dictionary Lady?
a. Benita Webster
b. Annie Onieta Plummer
c. Anne Frank

7. Who was the first Black army nurse?
a. Susie King Taylor
b. Susan Taylor
c. Florence Nightengale

8. He opened the largest black-owned resort in America called Peg Leg Bates Country Club?
a. Norman Bates
b. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
c. Clayton Bates

9. During the Presidency of Dwight. D. Eisenhower, he ordered that armed federal marshals escort this little girl to an all white school in New Orleans?
a. Ruby Dee
b. Ruby Bridges
c. Rosa Parks

10. Who was the first African American McDonald's franchise owner?
a. Ronald McDonald
b. Herman Petty
c. Albert Joyner

11. Who was the first African American to win a national title in any sport?
a. Tiger Woods
b. Marshall Major Taylor
c. Jackie Robinson

12. What book became the first black book of the Book-of-the-Month Club?
a. Native Son
b. Uncle Tom's Cabin
c. Roots
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1. During the Presidency of Dwight. D. Eisenhower, he ordered that armed federal marshals escort this little girl to an all white school in New Orleans?
Correct answer: b. Ruby Bridges (Note: In 1960, a federal judge ordered that Ruby Bridges be allowed to enter the first grade at the all-white Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. On her first day, a threatening mob of whites tried to keep her out of the building.)

2. Who was the first Black army nurse?
Correct answer: a. Susie King Taylor (Note: Susie King Taylor was the first black army nurse, serving African American troops during the Civil War for more than four years, despite that fact that she was never paid.)

3. Who was the Black surgeon who led the first successful operation to separate Siamese twins?
Correct answer: b. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. (Note: Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. is best known for leading the first surgical team that successfully separated a pair of Siamese twins, who were born joined at the head.)

4. He opened the largest black-owned resort in America called Peg Leg Bates Country Club?
Correct answer: c. Clayton Bates (Note: In 1952, Clayton Bates opened Peg Leg Bates Country Club in New York. It was the largest black-owned resort in America until he sold it in the late 1980s.)

5. Where was the first historically Black college founded?
Correct answer: c. Philadelphia in 1832 (Note: The first historically Black college was founded in Philadelphia in 1832 as the Institute for Colored Youth. It is now called Cheyney State University. )

6. What African American politician was known as the "Harlem Fox"?
Correct answer: a. J. Raymond Jones (Note: J. Raymond Jones was a Harlem politician who worked for years to advance the role of the African Americans in government. Shrewd and clever , he became known as the Harlem Fox.)

7. Who was the first African American to win a national title in any sport?
Correct answer: b. Marshall Major Taylor (Note: He was popularly called the Black Cyclone, and Marshall Major Taylor became the first African American to win a national sport in any title in 1898, despite disputes within the League of American Wheelman regarding race.)

8. Who wrote the 1994 Time Magazine cover story on the new Black Renaissance in art?
Correct answer: c. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Note: Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote the 1994 Time Magazine cover story on the new Black Renaissance in art.)

9. . What book became the first black book of the Book-of-the-Month Club?
Correct answer: a. Native Son (Note: Richard Wright was the leading African American writer of the 1920s and 40s. His novel Native Son, published in 1940, tells the story of the accidental murder of a white woman by a young black man. It became a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the first book by an African American writer to achieve that distinction. )

10. Who was the first African American McDonald's franchise owner?
Correct answer: b. Herman Petty (Note: McDonalds first African American franchise owner, Herman Petty, opened the doors to his restaurant on the Southside of Chicago in 1968.)

11. Who was the Dictionary Lady?
Correct answer: b. Annie Onieta Plummer (Note: Annie Onieta Plummer spent $50 on thirty dictionaries and handed them out to children on the street corner. In each book she wrote the motto of the United Negro College Fund, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." The idea caught on and she began to sell Dictionary T-shirts to raise money to buy more dictionaries, thus making her name the Dictionary Lady? )

12. What Olympian became a McDonalds operator?
Correct answer: c. Edith Duvall (Note: Edith Duvall lit up the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo by winning three track medals. Edith and her husband, opened a total of six McDonalds restaurant stores: two in Richmond, Virginia, three in Oakland, California and one in San Francisco.)
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From: gabriel gabriel@ap.net
Subject: Ashcroft and the Log Cabin failure

Ashcroft and Log Cabin
(An essay by John Arachosis)

Well, John Ashcroft was finally confirmed as our new Attorney General, in spite of his record of anti-gay animus, (and anti-black animus, anti-women animus, and you name it). While he won by one of the narrowest margins in Cabinet history (58-42), he still won, and that means Mr. "Do you have the sexual preference of most men?" is in charge of our civil rights, or lack thereof, for the next 4 years. He did, however, effectively have to renounce every belief dear to him in order to pass Senate confirmation, as a result of pressure from all of you and many many others who helped out in the campaign to stop his nomination.

An interesting twist came in the final days before the vote on Ashcroft's confirmation. You see, Ashcroft was on the verge of being in serious trouble for the first time during the confirmation process after Amb. James Hormel accused him of lying under oath about their relationship, and former Democratic staffer Paul Offner held a press conference accusing Ashcroft of asking him about his sexual orientation during a job interview in the mid-80s (while testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago, Ashcroft said he has NEVER used sexual orientation to determine anyone's fitness for employment.

Well, just as we finally found a chink in the Ashcroft armor, who stepped up to save the day, but our own Log Cabin Republicans. Yes, just as John Ashcroft's anti-gay history was finally being exposed to the world - the Washington Post reported on it, and the story was clearly building - Log Cabin found it in their heart to defend this man who once said that gay people should seek help. CNN reported on Log Cabin's defense of Ashcroft, as did other big media outlets.

Now, I understand that Log Cabin is made up of gay Republicans, but isn't there some limit to the kind of people these guys are willing to endorse - I mean, they are a GAY republican group, after all, and I'm assuming (or at least was assuming) that not every Republican was passable to these guys. But, lo and behold, the religious right's candidate for president, John Ashcroft, the man who accepted $10,000 from Pat Robertson, and who refused to repudiate Southern Partisan magazine and Bob Jones University (that still has an edict that gay alums will be arrested on returning to campus), is in the Log Cabin Republicans' eyes, a-ok.
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From: dick pan pandick_2000@yahoo.com
Subject: A fairy tale

"Revengina"

Her mother had died when she was five years old, just after marrying her stepfather. She was now seventeen. They lived in a cottage in the deep, dark woods, wildly surrounded by all manner of green growing things. And strange things grew there too - things that were not green, things the Old Hag Of The Woods collected. The path connecting the road to town and their door was hardly visible. They had no neighbors save for the forest hag, Forestiana by name, who lived about a mile away. It was three miles to town and Revengina only went there to market once a week. Her stepfather was cruel, and ever since her mother died when she was just three, he made Revengina do everything, including bathe him. That was bad enough, but he also fucked her every night without fail for the past five years - the one exception being the night of the new year when he went to town to get drunk and came home the next afternoon. While there, he spent all the extra money Revengina had earned through the year selling roots, seeds, nuts, and berries at the market. There was only enough money left to see them through the rest of the winter, after which she could once again begin collecting and selling the forest produce. It was like this year after year.

During this year, the year she turned seventeen, her fortunes changed in a magical manner. One afternoon while gathering black walnuts, she met up with Forestiana, The Hag Of The Woods. "He still fucking your brains out?" She asked the shy child. Revegina confessed that indeed he was. "If only there were some way I could make him stop, I might be a happy girl and even seek a husband. But he rules me and I do not know what to do." The Hag felt true pity for the girl for she had been a sex slave of a Forest Fairy in her childhood and still felt the pain of his nightly visits. She decided to give the fuck-weary girl a means of escape from the evil stepfather. This was her plan: She gave Revegina a magic ointment that was to be rubbed sparingly around and into her pee hole just before her stepfather came for his nightly cumming.

As he entered her, Revengina was to picture in her mind some object she wanted his dick to turn into at the dawn of the morrow. "If you are pure of heart," said the Hag, "you will see when you bathe him that IT indeed has changed into what you had imagined the night before. ...But, if you have not chosen the one Magic Object, his IT will transform back to normal at sunset." The excited girl pleaded for the Magic word, but the Bitch Of The Forest's lips were sealed. They parted company and Revengina hurried home tightly clutching the small earthen jar of ointment to her budding breasts.

When sundown finally came, Revengina could hardly contain her excitement. For the first time ever, she wanted stepdaddy's dick in her pee hole. When their appointed hour approached, she rubbed the ointment around and into her hole as directed. As hundreds of nights before, he came to her and put his throbbing greeting in IT's familiar holder. As he entered her, Revengina thought of the melon she had seen at the market only the day before. It was green with dark stripes running across its surface. "Please let this be the Magic object!" she prayed.

Well, it was magic is some way for sure, for when she gave him his morning bath, a huge mellow attached to his groin bobbed merrily in the water. "OH!" she exclaimed. Her stepfather yelled at her to get on with the scrubbing and ignore that green thing - anyone with half an ounce of sense could see it was only a trick of some angry forest elf. If it is ignored, it will go away. Such were the rules of spells and forest elves. And to her disappointment, the night brought her stepfather and his restored natural cock to her once again. She had repeated the ointment treatment and this time she thought of the friendly squirrel that lived in the apple tree just outside their door. "Please, Old Hag Of The Woods, let this be the Magic object," she minded to herself.

Sadly, once again it was only a little magic. For although the squirrel was attached the next morning at bath time as the melon had been, frantically trying to keep from drowning, splashing and gurgling in a furry frenzy in the wooden tub, it disappeared with the setting sun and IT returned. And so it went for the next fourteen days and nights. Revengina tried imagining a pine cone and a stick and a jagged rock and even a large carp like the one she had seen swimming in the stream. All her objects were only temporary, for each night it was the same fucking thing all over again.

On the seventeenth day, the real Magic began. While on her way to the Hag's cottage to beg the Magic Object's name, Revengina was startled by the unfamiliar sound of hoof beats on the forest path. She knew it was the young Prince Sliverdick (so named by evil nursemaids who were overheard laughing in a discussion about his wee weiner one day in the pantry - they were imprisoned for life - but the name became widely used by the townsfolk), for she had a dream the night before that he would marry her within a fortnight. He was glorious in his splendid gilt-edged silk robes. He stopped next to her and fell instantly in love with her - of course. So did Revengina with him - of course. But her fear, shame, and shy nature caused her to run and hide in the dense trees. Yet she did manage to say aloud her name in answer to his request just as she disappeared from his sight.

That night at the usual time, the stepfather came to her. It was the coldest night of the autumn and Revengina could only think of the icicle she had seen hanging from the cottage door frame when she returned that evening from her foraging. And so it was at sun-up that she found her stepfather awaiting his scrub down with a seven inch icicle hanging where IT should have been. With sudden inspiration, She helped him into the tub and fetched the large pot of boiling water she had heating to make the daily stew. She quickly poured the steaming water over the icicle and marveled at how rapidly it melted to only a thin sliver of ice that was gone in a magical sparkling instant more. The Stepfather screamed and lurched from the tub, but it was too late. IT had disappeared. All that remained was a tiny hole he used in the future to relieve himself like a woman. He ran naked into the forest, absolutely insane. Legend has it that he was captured by a band of gypsies and made a eunuch slave. He was fucked in the ass nightly. For those who like a happy ending even for the bad guys, some say he grew to like it.

As for Revegina and Sliverdick - well.....he had her name after all. Of course they did. The jar of ointment was magic itself; it never emptied! And after they married, Revengina thought up a new twist to his dick every night. He was Ten Inch Man, and Super Glands Man, and Iron Rod Man, and Cum Again And Again And Again And Again Man, and a thousand other delightful Fuck Tools Of Her Imagination Man. He became known as Prince of a Thousand Dicks, and later as King of a Thousand Pricks. They had seventeen children. All males, and all hung like oxen.

Forestiana got drunk from elderberry wine at the wedding and danced herself to death - it was OK - she was 103 years old after all and had served her purpose. The nursemaids were pardoned by the Prince but had to serve as town whores to all the traveling merchants - and they were not allowed to charge a penny. They gathered roots, seeds, nuts, and berries to sustain themselves.

And the IT fixer, the magic elixir, is legended to exist to this day. So if you wake up one morning sprouting a melon or a squirrel where your cock should be, have no fear. All will right itself by nightfall. But....... NEVER mention an icicle to your sex partner!

Oh - King Of All Cocks and Revegina lived happily ever fuckin' after. Of course they did. But you knew that at the start, you clever fox.
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From: "rich" tioricardo@mediaone.net
Subject: Re: A fairy tale

You have obviously picked the wrong market for your delightful tale! It should be published as a Coffee Table book for Sophisticated Adult Readers--much like Mark Twain's "1601, Fireside Conversations in the Time of the Tudors"
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From: DMcdono756@AOL.COM Subject: Re: A fairy tale

I have a comment on your story as you requested.

I think the story was fucking amazing and thought the fucking publishers must all be fucking nuts not to publish it. The fucking kids would do well to read the fuck out of it and learn a valuable lesson in life. The only criticism I might have is the fucking story didn't have enough fucking cursing and swearing. Where else are those fucking little bastards going to learn the right fucking way to use one of the most used and useable parts of speech.

Fucking Hugs,
Don
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From: "Ben Boxer"
Subject: Gay News Roundup

Headlines:
1) Sensitivity training follows gay film festival in Utah
2) Rainbow kilt causes stir in Scotland
3) Bush Stumble Exposes Troubling Policy Goals
4) Atlanta Baptists Defy Southern Leadership

Text:
1) Members of the Gay Pride Alliance at Utah State University in Logan have complained to the administration that an employee in the cashier's office had janitors block a display for the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival last week so that she wouldn't have to look at it, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. The complaint prompted the administration to order 53 employees in the cashier's and controller's offices to take sensitivity training through the university's Equal Employment Opportunity Office.

2) A new rainbow kilt aimed at gay men is causing a flap among members of Scotland's Tartan Society, the Scottish Daily Record reports. Approval of the rainbow tartan has caused society president Duncan Paisley to suspend all future tartans until a review can be held. "It was not approved with the knowledge it was a gay tartan," he said. But Keith Lumsden, who approved the rainbow kilt, asked, "Who are we to say that some people should not have a tartan?"

3) The very public and highly embarrassing scramble yesterday over published reports that the White House intended to abolish executive level offices on AIDS and race relations was the subject of an interesting analysis in The New York Times on Thursday. Comments made by White House chief of staff Andrew Card and printed in USA Today on Wednesday, were disavowed by the administration's press secretary Ari Fleischer within hours of their publication. The Times called the "highly unusual" sequence of events a case in which Bush's usually smooth message machine simply fell apart at the seams. The newspaper quotes AIDS advocates, African American groups and their Democratic allies as suspecting that Card was not mistaken, as Fleischer told the press, but was giving voice to an agreed upon course of action. The symbolism of such a course, however, coming so soon after John Ashcroft's controversial confirmation as attorney general, could not have been more inopportune for Bush, and many suspect higher ups in the administration abruptly reversed course and decided to let Card take the fall.

4) Members of the Atlanta Baptist Association last week refused to follow the lead of the national Southern Baptist Convention, voting to allow two gay-friendly churches to remain members. But while pastors of the two Atlanta churches praised the vote, the head of the SBC called for other congregations to abandon the local group in protest. Other churches should "take a strong look to see if they want to be a part of that kind of association," James Merritt, pastor of Snellville Baptist Church outside Atlanta and president of the SBC, told the SBC's news service, Baptist Press. "If [homosexuality] doesn't disqualify you from membership in the association, what would? Can a church practice open adultery, polygamy, desecration of the Lord's Supper and be a part of the Atlanta Baptist Association?" he said. ------------------------------
From: Hal Whitmore halwhitmore@home.com
Subject: Re: Gay News Roundup

on 2/9/01 3:47 AM, Ben Boxer at benboxer@mediaone.net wrote:
and many suspect higher ups in the administration abruptly reversed course and decided to let Card take the fall.

Now, as I recall, FDR used to let Eleanor "run things up the flag pole" during his administration. Might be interesting to see Bush's Chief of Staff in drag as Eleanor Roosevelt, lol.

on 2/9/01 3:47 AM, Ben Boxer at benboxer@mediaone.net wrote:
Headlines: 2) Rainbow kilt causes stir in Scotland

Now, the question is, how do we get a kilt made of this tartan?
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