[Leica] Re:

["R. Saylor" <rlsaylor@ix.netcom.com>]

From:           	"Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@umb.edu>
To:             	<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date sent:      	Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:14:13 -0400
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> 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.
> 

Stuart, I was born in NC but left about the same time that a certain 
infamous and disgusting situation occurred at a lunch counter in 
Greensboro. 

NC certainly lagged in civil rights legislation, and there's no excuse 
for that. But as far as racial prejudice goes, I encountered as much 
of it in Chicago IL, Berkeley CA, Houston TX, and Miami FL as I 
ever did in NC. I am now back in NC and am happy to report that 
prejudice here is now minimal compared to other locales. Visit 
sometime, and you will see what I mean.

By the way, it is not the case that "some of my best friends are 
black." I have some FRIENDS. Their complexion doesn't make a 
damn bit of difference, never did, and should not be of interest to 
anyone.

Richard 

P.S. To keep this somewhat on topic, I wish I had gotten a photo of 
that idiot threatening blacks with an axe handle in Greensboro (with 
my humble Argus C3), but it would be something to weep over.