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Ho Chi Minh exhibit protested

From: Lawrence A. Parker (occti)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 04:55:58 PST

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    Lawrence A. Parker
    Philosopher/Educational Consultant
    The Ohio Center for Critical Thinking Instruction
    http://www.acorn.net/lists-ht/occti.html
    Truth, Honor and Courage

    How do all of you art teachers feel about this exhibit? Anybody there local
    who has seen it? Interesting mix of artistic and political issues...

    "Ho Chi Minh exhibit protested

    OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - They called him a mass murderer. They denounced him
    as a "lewd monster." But by the hundreds, the demonstrators made it clear
    that there's one thing Ho Chi Minh shouldn't be: art. An exhibit featuring
    portraits of the late North Vietnamese leader is stirring emotions in the
    San Francisco Bay Area, once a hotbed of anti-Vietnam War sentiment and now
    home to a large community of Vietnamese-Americans, many of them fervently
    anti-Communist. About 1,500 protesters, most of them Vietnamese, turned out
    Saturday for the exhibit's opening at the Pacific Bridge Contemporary
    Southeast Asian Art Gallery. They weren't happy." 

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