Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brad, I hate to burst your bubble but there's as much chance that Uncle Ted up there on the plantation has seen Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" as that he'll do his next book with a Holga with a big spliff in his mouth. And there's a good reason for PC - so that it's no longer acceptable in so-called polite speech to talk like that. Sure people do talk like that, but it's restricted to real bigots. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "brad daly" <bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Canadians, slavery and the health care system: OT...oh and Nazis too [No Nazis] > > On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 08:00 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > > > Hey guys, you folks are creating a strained relationship with me and the > > slaves I keep 'round here cleanin' the property, grass cut and the > > stables > > mucked out! > > jesus, ted. you would be in SO MUCH trouble for making jokes like this > around here. > > no white person in america can get away with joking about slavery, so i > don't mean this as a criticism of you. i find interesting the societal > divisions of humor (it's a PC thing, though "PC" has gotten so > loaded. . . .) in america. > > anyhoo, seen spike lee's _bamboozled_. i thought it was brilliant > because it, like _do the right thing_, took on the issue of race in that > balls-to-the-wall way that only spike lee seems brave enough to do. > > okay, so i promise not to talk about his anymore. cross my heart and > hope to die. > > -- > brad daly > bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net > http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly > http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html > > "There's no way drugs can affect music in a negative way." > --Brian Wilson > > "I pledge allegiance to Queen Frag and her mighty state of hysteria." > --Calvin and Hobbes > > "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." > --Billy Bragg > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html