Recommandations


Dear Drs. With,
Thank you very much for your interest in speaking at Texas State University. My name is Dr. Pam Wuestenberg, and I am the Chair of the University Lecturer Series. The Provost’s office forwarded your email and information, asking me to respond to your inquiry about speaking at Texas State.
Your life experiences tell a very powerful story, which would benefit any campus to hear. Currently, speakers are brought to campus by individual faculty or programs and the process to obtain funding requires a proposal submission a year in advance. A campus committee later determines what proposals are funded.
Unfortunately, the 2018-2019 funding cycle has been completed and there are no options at the university level to bring you to campus. However, academic departments or special interest programs typically have small amounts of funding, and your request could possibly be of interest to them. I would recommend you reach out to The Center for Diversity and Gender Studies, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and/or the Leadership Institute at Texas State University.
We appreciate your interest in Texas State students and your offer to help them develop knowledge beyond the classroom. I wish you the best of luck with your requests, and I am sorry we do not have funding for your presentation. Should you need require a document, I have attached a copy of my response to you.

Sincerely,
Dr. Pam Wuestenberg
Chair of the University Lecturer Series
Health and Human Performance
Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas 866


Dear Drs With,
Thank you for your quick response. I did have an opportunity to read the introduction to your book on Kindle and found it to be interesting, and thought provoking. I will definitely purchase it online. It would be wonderful if more American Black would base their opinions about certain individuals based on objectivity and not subjectivity, otherwise their opinions lack open mindedness and validity. Again thank you for your interest in using a quote from my statement in the Atlanta Black Star article. You are a very powerful thinker and an excellent writer. There were a couple of times while reading the excerpt from your book on Kindle that I was reminded of the writings of Frantz Fanon; especiallly “The Wretched of the Earth.” I look forward to reading your book in it’s entirety.

Sincerely,
Margie Campbell-Threadgill

Good afternoon Drs. With,
Thank you for the encouragement (writing a best seller). Here’s a thought, with your permission I’d like to help you with getting more exposure on the international market for your works in general and in America specifically.
I would like to use excerpts from “Why the race battle is hard to win.” Eventually I’d like to make your book available to my college’s library.
A luta continua

Have a great weekend!
Dr. Charles Richburg

Dear Mr. With,
I have read your book: heartbreaking in content, wonderful in exposing stupidity and sad because it will not receive the Nobel Prize.
I will not put things into perspective. I cannot check whether you may put away some people unnecessarily or on incorrect grounds as people who are no good. I make no attempt, for example, to defend Hugo FM, but you are so generous in being (wanting to be) right that possible honorable motives do not receive sufficient respect or understanding from others. But who am I to judge this when I am laughing how you serve a fool like Frank Kruisland. Or raise my eyebrows if – in my opinion – you are far too lenient about Venetian, the former president of Surinam.
I also don’t want to make the mistake of advising to moderate your tone if you aspire to a larger readership. Now that the crimes against humanity from a few centuries ago to the present day cause harm to millions of people, it is not a matter of moderating the tone. On the contrary. Even if only a few people want to read the book (from start to finish), one thing remains: you are solely responsible for what you write; what others do with it is the responsibility of those others. You only have the certainty that after your death you will be recognized and all those others will not be recognized.
I have made many notes. Usually with passages that I fully endorse, but sometimes also with views that I provide with a question mark. I suppose you think it possible, at least in theory, that a white man is rightly questioning your argument here and there?
I am left with the paragraph on page 241 that begins with the question “How is it possible… ”You don’t answer that question anywhere in the book. Or have I perhaps not noticed it among the thousands of details that crush the reader like a cluster bomb? The question is all the more relevant where you regularly compare the “Red Berets” with the Hindustani part of the Surinamese population. Again with this book, you provide identification to what you wrote earlier in words such as “Why we can’t make it” and “It will never be okay.” But do you ever come up with an answer to that question “How is it possible that …”? If that succeeds, you are done with your life’s work.
Have you ever considered offering this book as a thesis to one or more professors who would dare?
Very small detail without meaning. At the next press, you can correct a typo: it is Bill Maher, not Mahler.
Dr. L. Klinkers

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Published by Julian S With

Julian Samuel With (District of Brokopondo, 16 October 1954) is a Surinamese publicist and writer living in the Netherlands. He made his debut in Suriname with the novella Ja, Ik ben een Marron (1974). In this book he discusses some aspects of the living situation of the young Maroons in Paramaribo who are trying to pave the way for development. He denounces the contempt of the Maroons by the townspeople and states that there is no question of solidarity in Suriname if a part of the black population discriminates against the other part. ln 1975 With moved to the Netherlands, where he graduated from the Jan van Nassau Pedagogical Academy in 1976. In the same year he started studying psychology at the University of Utrecht. In 1982 he graduated from the Department of Personality and Social Psychology. In 1979 he published Land of Harmonious Contrasts. In this book, With states that he finds it ridiculous that the Maroons are discriminated against by their fellow breeders who were born in Paramaribo. With has also written poetry. From 1992 to 1994 he carried out the project 'Learning performance improvement through reading promotion', which he developed himself, among 385 Surinamese and Antillean children from group 7 in the Netherlands. The project funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science was a great success. 87% of the participating children received a HAVO / VWO recommendation. [Source?] In 2006 he developed the RIS project (Repair Intellectual Damage) that was carried out in Suriname without his leadership among children of the sixth grade of inland schools (Brokopondo, Sipaliwini and Marowijne district). With this intervention program he increased the annual average success rate from 7% to 51% (N = 581).