5 Oct
2013
5 Oct
'13
2:23 a.m.
[ruthless snippage]
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013, Greg McKenzie wrote:
The politics of a dance community are plenty to deal with in any
case. As it stands we have to deal with a diverse group with vastly
different ideas of where our particular dance tradition is headed--or,
for that matter, where it came from.
As Erik pointed out, we actually are not all that diverse on a number of
axes, and I haven't seen much discussion about increasing diversity in
the contra community, at least since I joined this list in January.
(Which I'm somewhat sensitive about due to my involvement in diversity
for Open Source.)
Not that I feel it's really my place to push hard on this as a newbie
caller, nor do I have much time/energy to push from the dancer side, but
I think it's reasonable to point out that Greg is at least somewhat
overstating the case.
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