what you’re saying Not Funny The MONDO BALTO cartoon in the November/ December issue was very negative! You could have had a great article on Weinberg, Krieger, Bloomberg or Goldseker, describing how wealth was accumulated and why and how each of their families became philanthropists. The cartoon convicted all of these men. That is very unfair, without explanations. How can you character assassinate James Rouse without an explanation? He developed Cross Keys in the mid-1960s. Was this terrible? Was it terrible to make a profit? You do not want to share poverty. You can share wealth. Was Columbia a mistake? I was upset and ready to throw Urbanite in the trash. However, I thought better and decided to continue on. All the remaining articles were excellent, very appropriate and calmed me down. —Phillip Lee lives in Parkville and works as an engineer in Canton.
Diversity Having been a resident of Baltimore all of my life, I really enjoy the magazine and its interesting focus on a variety of topics. However, as an African American citizen, I do notice a lack of representation in the magazine. In the last edition, there was a group of the city’s foundation leaders and philanthropists [Conversation: “Philanthropy in Baltimore: Four Perspectives”] but there was no mention or representatives in the discussion about the black philanthropists or giving organizations, such as Associated Black Charities. My husband and I are in our forties and in many ways are the first full generation to benefit from the civil rights movement. We were the children
of Martin Luther King’s dream. As we entered into adulthood, many of us pursued the dream of bigger and better homes, cars, and luxury vacations. We have gotten these things at a dear cost to ourselves. After surveying our lives, my husband and I decided to pursue a different American Dream and have made many changes ranging from career to moving to a smaller house. With this issue concerning the new American Dream, I am hoping that there will be some participation from the black community. It would be a real inspiration to those of us in the city looking for like-minded people and activities that support the concept of simplicity. —Adrienne Jubilee lives in Upper Park Heights and works for Adoptions Together . Editor’s Note: Urbanite strives to represent all of Baltimore in its pages and we appreciate your feedback. A member of the African American philanthropic community was invited to join our conversation, but the individual failed to show the day of the event. The Associated Black Charities was noted for its work in our feature story on giving, on pages 16 and 17. We hope you will enjoy this issue’s Conversation, found on page 38. n
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There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. —Archibald MacLeish, poet
We must stop talking about the American Dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. —Max Beerbohm, writer
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. —Florence King, novelist
A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn’t going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American Dream of liberty. —George Baumler, author
I look out at it and I think it is the most beautiful history in the world. … It is the history of all aspiration not just the American Dream but the human dream and if I came at the end of it that too is a place in the line of the pioneers. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist
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Do I dare live out the American Dream? —Homer Simpson, cartoon character
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