[Leica] Re:

[Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

Gosh, isn't any group free of "professional victims"?..... and I 
thought I was a mess!!

Walt in Denton

Southern Omnisexual, usually celibate, smoking,  moderate income Person 
of nondescript caucasian ethnicity presumed to be of, but not limited 
to, Italian and German descent.  No offense to other species intended, 
including lawyers and doctors (some of my best friends are those, of 
course)
Views are probably those of my employer or family, as it is they who 
tell me what/when to think.

On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:57:02 -0700 Mark Rabiner 
<mrabiner@concentric.net> wrote:
> Stuart Phillips wrote:
> > 
> > <Also the person who posted the original complaint under this heading 
> made > <a very negative comment about North Carolina a few weeks 
> ago....being > <from the south I am used to this kind of statement as 
> we are always > <accused of being racist/bigoted just because of our 
> accents...maybe this > <fellow should look to his own prejudices before 
> posting such nonsense to > <the list.
> > > I am the person who posted a comment about North Carolina.  I did 
> so based > not on the accents of  those living in the southern states 
> but on the > appalling history (if history is the word for something 
> which happened a > mere twenty years ago) of  their treatment of 
> blacks. I'm sorry if North > Carolina wasn't as I said "Last in civil 
> rights" - maybe second to last.  Oh > yeah, and to forestall the 
> obvious, some of my best friends are black too.
> 
> I think who ever it was was kidding on the North Carolina thing. I 
> don't think anyone cares one way or the other about individual states. 
> I also don't think you sounded like a racist or that anyone thought you 
> were. Fuck 'em that's what I say! People like be when the agree with 
> me. How many are those today? Who knows? Tomorrow they'll think we're 
> both great becase we will be on agreement on some issues.
> Mark Rabiner