Re: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism

["Will" <wlarsen@ocsnet.net>]

So why don't you take this discussion to the Rollei list
which you rule with a Draconian hand or to the LUG forum? We
all know pretty much what your viewpoint is.  After five
years of listening to you rant, I am getting a little tired.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 02:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism


| At 09:21 PM 2/10/03 +0100, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
| >
| >Whatever the history of the phrase, it is indisputable
that today, at
| >least in the Deep South, it IS very much a code word for
supporting the
| >good old days when blacks knew that their place was in
the back of the
| >bus. I lived in North Florida (the part of that state
that is part of
| >the South, as opposed to South Florida) from 1984 to
1990, and can
| >assure you that everyone there knew what "states' rights"
meant, and
| >there sure was nothing libertarian about it...
| >
|
| Nathan
|
| I have lived in Virginia for three decades now and I can
assure you that
| there is nothing "coded" about 'states' rights' in this
Commonwealth -- it
| means only the right of the sovereign Commonwealth of
Virginia to determine
| those things which the founding fathers felt were proper
for the purview of
| the several states, such as fundamental police powers,
nothing more and
| nothing less.  Virginia was never a rancidly Jim Crow
state and, when they
| passed racist laws, they were fairly open about it.
|
| | I cannot speak for Florida.  Never been there and, from
all I have heard, I
| doubt that I ever want to go there.  Sounds like the East
Coast's answer to
| California.
|
| Marc


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