ting Barnes and Noble and the Anti-Defamation League's Book
 "Hate Hurts..."
  

 European/American Issues Forum
 CW Kuhn, Secretary--CW Johns, Treasurer--FP Williams, Sgt. at Arms
 Louis Calabro, President------David Winzer, Vice President

 08 Oct 2000

 Barnes and Nobel 
 Leonard Riggio, Chairman
 Ellen Keating, Senior Vice President Corporate Communications

 Maria Florez, Director, Investor Relations
 Gus Carlson, Vice President, Corporate Communications
 Shelly Young, Director, Investor Relations

 Re: The Colloboration of Barnes and Noble and the Anti-Defamation League in 
 Close the Book on Hate that resulted in the distribution of the book, "Hate 
 Hurts..." by Caryl Stern-LaRosa and Ellen Hofhelmier-Bettmann.

 Dear Sirs and Madams:

 The European/American Issues Forum, a San Francisco Bay Area based moderate 
 and thoughtful civil rights organization protests Barnes and Noble joining 
 with the Anti-Defamation League in an effort that purports to support the 
 teaching of tolerance while practicing the very opposite.

 Below is our book review on the book "Hate Hurts...". It appears that it is 
 the clear purpose of the ADL to portray European Americans as the primary 
 purveyors of racial animus and the primary perpetrators of hate crimes. 
 Neither portrayal is accurate and unfairly defames our people. 

 What's so deeply troubling and frightening is that this book is already on 
 the shelves of K-12 school libraries throughout American? I cannot conceive 
 of Barnes and Noble being part of any activity that would defame and 
 discriminate against European Americans in this cruel, flawed and intolerant 
 book about prejudice and discrimination that is now available to school 
 children.

 Please sever your relations with this book and the Anti-Defamation League in 
 this collaboration. May I hear from your offices ASAP on this matter? Thank 
 you.,

 Louis Calabro, President, European/American Issues Forum PMB 155 297 El 
 Camino Real, San Bruno, Ca. 94066 (650) 952-8489

 European/American Issues Forum
 CW Kuhn, Secretary--CW Johns, Treasurer--FP Williams, Sgt. at Arms
 Louis Calabro, President------David Winzer, Vice President
 September 27, 2000

 Book Review, by Louis Calabro

 The Anti-Defamation League’s: 

 “Hate Hurts-How Children Learn and
 Unlearn Prejudice- A Guide for Adults and Children” 
 September 2000-Publisher-Scholastic Inc. New York.

 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recently joined forces with Barnes and Noble 
 to launch a campaign called “Close the Book on Hate”. Their recently 
 published book “Hate Hurts...” being reviewed herein, is considered a 
 first step in that direction.

 Unfortunately the book is a continuation of what appears to be their policy 
 of stigmatizing and stereotyping European Americans as the primary purveyors 
 of racial animus and the primary perpetrators of hate crimes. In fact, the 
 ADL and Barnes and Noble, acting as the teachers of minimizing bigotry, 
 racism and stereotyping are eagerly practicing and promoting those exact 
 undesirable traits. For example, the first page of the book starts out:

 “Dear Readers, Mention Laramie, Wyoming, Jasper, Texas, or Littleton, 
 Colorado, and our collective conscience is assaulted by the brutal hate 
 crimes committed in those places. We store in our mind’s eye the image of 
 five year old children clutching one another’s hands as they run from a 
 Jewish Community day care center under attack by an anti-semite.”

 What that opening paragraph tells the readers of this book is that all of 
 the perpetrators of bigotry, racism and stereotyping are European Americans 
 and our collective conscience is assaulted by the brutal hate crimes 
 committed [by European Americans}...”. 

 Yes, the book begins by teaching that all of the “bad” people in those four 
 cases are European Americans and follows that pattern throughout the book. 
 That’ isn’t reality. 

 That pattern is consistent throughout the book. A review of Chapter 13, 
 titled “Crimes of Hate: Physical and Emotional Violence”, solidifies by 
 using concrete examples the notion of emphasizing European American 
 involvement in racial animus cases and as the perpetrators of hate crimes. 
 All other racial/ethnic groups are their victims. The Chapter has victims 
 like “spic”, black, Jewish, Asian and gay victims, but no European American 
 victims. The Chapter also mentions Nazi Germany and KKK members burning 
 black churches, but no other racial/ethnic groups or members are cited as 
 concrete examples of being the purveyors of racial animus or the perpetrators 
 of hate crimes. 

 The ADL and Barnes and Noble could easily have included the Racine, 
 Wisconsin and Jacksonville, FL. cases as concrete examples of hate crime 
 cases where European Americans were victims of significant and brutal 
 racially motivated hate crimes. 

 The significance of the Racine, Wisconsin case is that it was used by the 
 U.S. Supreme Court in Wisconsin vs. Mitchell, (1993) to confirm the 
 constitutionality of hate crime penalty enhancement statutes. 

 In Wisconsin vs. Mitchell a group of non-European American men and boys 
 discussed the picture “Mississippi Burning” which had a scene where a 
 “white” man beat a young black boy who was praying. They wanted to move on 
 some “white” people and while they were out walking they passed a “white” 
 boy and Mitchell said, “You all want to fuck somebody up? There goes a 
 “white” boy, go get him.” They did get him and they beat the boy so 
 severely he remained in a coma for four days.

 Similarly, and in an almost exact mirrored case, in August 1999, and after 
 seeing a picture called “ A Time to Kill”, 5-6 non-European American young 
 men decided to beat up the first “white” man that came along. The picture 
 was about two “white men” who raped a young African American girl and her 
 father sought revenge by shooting both of them. Unfortunately, European 
 American mentally retarded 50 year old Gregory Griffith was the first 
 “white” man to come along and they proceeded to brutally beat and stomp him 
 to death. Two have been convicted. Others await trial. 

 The ADL knows, and Barnes and Noble should know that the 1998 FBI Hate Crime 
 Statistical report reflects that there were nine (9) racially motivated 
 murders in 1998 and five (5) of the nine victims were European Americans. 
 But, it appears these facts are of no importance to the ADL and Barnes and 
 Noble. 

 The ADL knows that the San Francisco Police Department Hate Crime Statistical 
 reports 1995-1999, document that European Americans were victims of racially 
 motivated multiple assailant street attacks more often than any other 
 racial/ethnic group. 

 Knowing that they are cognizant of the above censored facts that are not 
 presented in their book is deeply troubling and frightening to European 
 Americans. It is incomprehensible that the ADL would write a book that will 
 be read by parents, teachers, administrators, students and some citizens that 
 fails to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That is an 
 unacceptable form of bigotry.

 This book “ Hate-Hurts-How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice” debases, 
 denigrates, dehumanizes and discriminates against European American students 
 and the at-large European American community and is not appropriate as 
 material that can be used for instructional material in San Mateo county. We 
 respectfully request that the San Mateo County Board of Education declare 
 this book as inappropriate for use in our county and remove it from the 
 county Resource Center. 

 Sincerely,

 Louis Calabro
 President.
 European/American Issues Foru