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ut we have to help them help us understand what is it about those institutions we want to become and what do we not want to become? That is something I don’t think we have done a very good job of. As a result, we tend to reify and romanticize the small and the marginal, important as they are in small spaces, as important as they are in our own communities. That public space that we have to traverse, we don’t want to claim. Particularly for the younger people, I want to leave you with another wordsmith, A. Phillip Randolph: “At the banquet table of nature there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can’t take anything, you won’t get anything; and if you can’t hold anything, you won’t keep anything. And you can’t take anything without organization.” 8 Then the question is, “Where do we direct that organization?” We have to become the public. We have to become the mainstream organizations. We don’t have to abandon our particular spaces, but we have to pick up that other part of our citizen identity. We are not just Black or this or that. We are also the public. By and large, that is a challenge before us that I would urge you to take on. Look at all of those institutions. They have got at least one colored person. You know that. That came from struggle! And that person is having a hard time because he or she is trying to figure out, “Do I put on a coat and tie or do I put on my poncho and my huaraches or do I dress up in tails?” So, we have to engage them because, if we don’t, they get frustrated and they atrophy or they turn into the “other.” Then, when the crisis comes, they are the ones whom they put out and say, “Go talk to your people.” Amanda Ault: Institutions are most certainly the sum of the people working there. And because people are different in where they are and who they are, we see institutions evolving and responding to the communities they serve in really different ways. I think there are numerous examples of institutions that have not done that smoothly and numerous examples of organizations or institutions that have been very responsive and savvy in working with their communities as they change. Because of their dependence on a few foundations or a few sources of income, many institutions and organizations find their program directions strongly linked with the funding agendas of their major funders. Programmatic shifts that you observe in institutions may be occurring because of influence from those funding sources. When analyzing our relationships with institutions, we should look a little more broadly and certainly deeper into the financial environments within which they operate and by which they may be influenced. Within the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC), we see organizations working to diversify their financial sources in order to be more sustainable as funding agendas shift and allow their programs to stay more closely aligned with their missions. We need to recognize that the priorities and trends in the funding community can affect the program decisions of institutions and incorporate this issue into our discussion. Maybe this is an invitation for us to get more involved with the funding strategies of our institutions and help them have greater financial autonomy and focus on the mission goals that we want to see them accomplish. 1 “U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts, Sacramento, California,” US Census Online, 2000, Census Brief, 28 Oct. 2006 . 2 “All Across the USA: Population Distribution and Composition, 2000,” US Census Online, 2000, Census Brief, 28 Oct. 2006 2. 3 “U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts, Sacramento, California.” 4 Norman Lebrecht, The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power (New York: Birch Lane, 1991). 66
5 Howard Gardner, Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21 st Century (New York: Basic, 1999) 157-181. 6 Gardner 57-66. 7 Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit and Other Plays (Houston: Arte Publico, 1992). 8 A. Philip Randolph, “A. Philip Randolph, Youth Version,” The A. Philip Randolph Institute, 28 Oct. 2006 . 67
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Introduction By Len Edgerly The New
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Symposium Participants The informat
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8 Craig E. Johnson, Meeting the Eth
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Page 68 and 69: Response and Discussion Shane Morem
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Page 111 and 112: Summary and Final Comments Shane Mo
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Page 121 and 122: List of Preliminary Readings on Lea
Page 123 and 124: References and Works Cited Aguirre,
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Page 127 and 128: Symposium Process and Agenda About
Page 129 and 130: Participants’ Biographies The bio
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her third City of Los Angeles Artis
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the Metropolitan State College of D
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Shandiin Sunrise is creatively buil
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Symposium Observers Lucero Arellano
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