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Subject: Re: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:38:55 -0800
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It's easy. Here, he can get for himself what of he won't give to others
from himself at that other place.
Slobodan Dimitrov

Will wrote:
> 
> 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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