Ref L - Effective Fund-Raising and Bouquet-Tossing

“Inner-City Holocaust and America’s Apartheid ‘Justice’ System” is a book that “Yours Truly” has (except for the final chapter) already written and placed in safe hands. However, the last chapter cannot be written before Fall 2011 because it will record the actions taken, if any, by the recipients of the 5 letters whose texts are posted in this section (the casual reader would best start with the letters to Messrs. Axelrod/Plouffe and to Sen. Chris Coons) =

(1) to President Obama and 20 other US & California governmental officials imploring them AS THEY REFUSED TO DO LAST YEAR to cause Amicus Curiae briefs to be filed on behalf of 10 million inner-city children and thereby REPRESENT THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS.

(2) to Gwen Ifill and 42 other news-media superstars imploring them AS THEY REFUSED TO DO LAST YEAR to provide the same kind of spotlight on the lawsuits involving the 10 million inner-city children that they routinely provide for, say, David Boies and his Proposition 8 lawsuits.

(3) to 51 inner-city clergy from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland CA providing the latest report on what the report described as “The Segregated Toilet and The Fatal Flush” – the “Segregated Toilet” being the abhorrent practice, even authorized by statute in California, that judges can flush away the rights of minorities in opinions THAT CANNOT BE PUBLISHED OR CITED because the judges know that the opinions are diametrically opposed to the well-settled law enjoyed by first-class American citizens.

(4) to Messrs. David Axelrod and David Plouffe, the Chicago- and Washington-based co-heads of President Obama’s Reelection Campaign providing them a “heads up” on what is “going down” because the aim of “Inner-City Holocaust” is to make the inaction of the 21 governmental officials an issue in any 2012 re-election campaigns in which they are involved – by making “Inner-City Holocaust” available without charge and electronically for ethics classes in law schools and divinity schools, and in undergraduate courses in political science, ethics/philosophy, sociology, etc.

(5) to U.S. Senator Christopher Coons from Delaware, newly elected last November, to provide him a “heads up” on what is “going down” because Senator Coons served with “Yours Truly” in the 1990’s on the national “I Have A Dream”® Board as Secretary and Treasurer, respectively, and it was IHAD- and IHAD-style programs that the $84 billion involved in the lawsuits was designed to provide for the 10-million inner-city children.

“Inner-City Holocaust” has been written In Memory Of John Howard Griffin whose “Black Like Me” half a century ago tried to convince America of its racism.

It is also written in honor of Jonathan Kozol whose award-winning books over the last half century have tried to convince America that it has created a permanent “untouchable” under-caste as a result of its racism – (1) The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005); (2) Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (2001); (3) Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995); (4) Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991); (5) Rachel and Her Children (1988); (6) Illiterate America (1985); (7) The Night is Dark and I Am Far From Home: Political Indictment of US Public Schools (1975); (8) Death at an Early Age (1967)

One might wonder why I am placing myself on the same stage as these two Saints. I’m not. They are on pedestals in my place of worship. Like one of Ghandi’s followers, it is my turn to have my head bashed in since the expected reactions to the prospect of “Inner-City Holocaust” are to try to defame me and to try to explain why the racism of the judges involved, the 21 governmental officials and the 43 news-media super-stars is all my fault rather than theirs.
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The 5/18/2011 letter to Senator Coons promised, at the end of the FAQs in connection with the discussion of effective fund raising, that Reference Material L would be the 10/16/2001 Letter to all of the members of the Royal Opera House/Covent Garden orchestra.

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On further reflection, it seemed appropriate to include three sample letters to help explain why super-wealthy widows react so strongly to the spectacle of assistance being given to a female.

Here are two letters to Renée Fleming that accompanied traditional Magnums of Dom Perignon prior to two Season Opening Nights at the Metropolitan Opera to provide a “Heads Up” for the sake of safety to expect bouquet tosses.

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The reason for including the first is to illustrate how such notes are designed to “cheer up” a Diva before an important performance with a short, up-beat note. She said on a later occasion that she had really enjoyed the comment that, despite a heavy travel schedule, I “would call in dead” before missing one of her Premieres later in the season.

The reason for including the second is to illustrate how crucial such notes can be on important occasions. By way of background, this was Renée’s first Traviata at the Met (she had withdrawn 4-5 years earlier from the New Production Premiere after Angela Gheorghiu had been “fired” for the announced reason that Renée’s schedule was too hectic and she had been too impulsive to agree at the last minute to substitute – but the NY Times had published snide remarks about alleged back-stage rumors that she couldn’t handle the role). Also by way of background, I went to Houston the preceding spring to toss for Renée’s first-ever Traviata anywhere to give her confidence that her fans were supporting her.

Renée, who is famous for nervousness and self doubt, remarked on a later occasion how much she liked reading the second paragraph just before the Opening Curtain because it gave her confidence that this would be one of the easiest performances of her career, rather than one of the most difficult!!!

And here is the third letter, which accompanied a traditional Magnum of DP for Anna Netrebko.

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It is included because the PS explains why I returned from my 2005 retirement from bouquet tossing. And it also illustrates further how to provide one of your Divas with up-beat information before a performance and, incidentally, if the up-beat information is voluminous how to divide it into “today” and “tomorrow” sections.

Anna must have read the “tomorrow” section during one of the intermissions because she had one of her entourage track me and my fiancé to a post-performance dinner at Fiorellos across from Lincoln Center. As we were departing for the evening’s opera, I heard a soft voice say “Thank you for the bouquet!!!” There was Anna and her entourage seated at a table only 10-12 feet from where we had been celebrating her performance – unfortunately my fiancé hadn’t recognized Anna and Anna’s table had been behind me.

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