[AGL] crowded slum apartment with folk music

[Jon Ford]

Michael-- I looked at the Texas Observer collection of documents recently 
posted by Thorne and found them  pretty much concerned with the anti-war 
movement of the later 60s. However, one 1963 document leapt out at me-- a 
psychological profile of the "ghettoite" which begins with the claim that 
because they called their "slum apartment" a "ghetto", they must have been 
deliberately identifying  with the pre-World War II Jews of Europe!. I guess 
these fellows had never heard of the "ghetto" used as a term denoting a 
black slum area. So were we Black-imitators, Jew imitators, or just students 
and drop-outs looking for a cheap-rent place to eat peyote and play folk 
music? Here's the hilarious psychological profile, which ends with a 
disturbing Hitleresque conclusion: Get rid of them all!

Jon



>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>

>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

>60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

>60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>Subject: Re: [AGL] crowded slum apartment with folk music

>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:08:15 -0600

>

>Jon,

>

>I can think of at least one of our current subscribers who insisted that it

>not be on our Web site (http://www.texasghetto.com).

>

>Mike

>

>----- Original Message -----

>From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster at hotmail.com>

>To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 3:47 PM

>Subject: Re: [AGL] dreary at the time but nice to visualize

>

>

> > Mike== those xeroxes were passed around by Tary Owens at the first 

>ghetto

> > nostalgia party a few years back. I could see how some of the named 

>perps

> > might object  a little to having their names posted, let's say if they

> > were

> > running for office or in a high-security position, but at this point

> > almost

> > all the  named have either died, retired, or left the country, so 

>posting

> > the documents  somewhere shouldn't be upsetting to anyone.

> >

> > Jon

> >

> >

> >>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>

> >>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the

> >>60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> >>To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the

> >>60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> >>Subject: Re: [AGL] dreary at the time but nice to visualize

> >>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:18:40 -0600

> >>

> >>Thorne,

> >>

> >>I found the xeroxes someone made of some of the

> >>reports to the UT police on the Ghettoistas. There was

> >>talk of putting this on our Web site but some of the

> >>named perps objected.

> >>

> >>At least one of the reports alleges that a female Ghettoista

> >>was believed to engage in fornication with men. While

> >>reading and laughing one should try to imagine the attire of

> >>the undercover author as a thought experiment. It must

> >>have been enormously thrilling for him to attend Ghetto

> >>parties on the weekend at the same time proud of being

> >>undercover and scared of being unmasked.

> >>

> >>Having stood around at said partays I can still visualize

> >>them: think harsh incandescent light in a small crowded

> >>slum apartment and cast iron pot on the stove boiling

> >>down the peyote.

> >>

> >>Mike

> >>

> >>----- Original Message -----

> >>From: "thorne dreyer" <thornedreyer at yahoo.com>

> >>To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>; <GHETTO2 at LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM>

> >>Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:17 PM

> >>Subject: [AGL] All Dreyer all the time

> >>

> >>

> >>For those who are interested:  my story on former UT top cop Allen

> >>Hamilton's files and on sixties surveillance in Austin is in the Texas

> >>Observer that hits the stands tomorrow.  Also, all the documents are to 

>be

> >>posted at http://texasobserver.org/.

> >>

> >>I was interviewed today for a four-minute segment on KUT currently

> >>scheduled

> >>for 4:44 pm tomorrow during All Things Considered.  And I am scheduled 

>to

> >>appear on a show called On the Fringe on KVRX Monday evening at seven.

> >>

> >>And if that isn't enough, for a small fee I'll come to your house and 

>read

> >>from the article.  (Additional for clown and/or stripper.)

> >>

> >>Dreyer

> >>

> >

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