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From: jobe@ssc-vax.UUCP (John W Jobe)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: What ever happened to Human Rights?
Message-ID: <664@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 18:16:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 18:16:16 1983
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I appreciate what Karl is saying- he is mostly professing what all reasonable
people profess: that race, creed, color, gender, or sexual persuasion should
not in any way be a factor in that person's qualifications or lack thereof
for any job or position in our society.

However, Karl, I think you miss the point a bit.  Although (very much to your
credit) it is not important to *you* whether your prospective employee or
fellow worker is phosphorescent purple-  to a lot of people it does mean a
great deal.  Although *you* do not let simple bigotry stand in the way of
a fair evaluation of another persons relative worth, many people do, and many
people have for quite a long time.  So much so that many people of ethnic
minorities feel (and rightly so) that in order to be accepted they must "wear"
the colors of the dominant majority.  Who are they?  Generally speaking, they
are just like *you*, Caucasian people descended from European stock. (Please,
Karl, I'm only stating fact.)

And so, these ethnic minorities try to hold on to whatever culture that they
can while still reaching out for the American pie(myself included- otherwise
I'd only be playing with computers for fun :-) ).

So you see, the statement "my people" is not an attempt to keep others out-
as a matter of fact, many of us with minority backgrounds definitely want 
you folks without our backgrounds to come *in*, to try to understand who *we*
are, and why we want to maintain some semblance(sp?) of our own ethnic 
traditions and folklore.

After all, the traditions, folklore, and cultural leanings that we are taught
in public schools all across the United States is that of the dominant 
majority- "*your* people".



"And look, not a single cussword!!!" from the oftimes fiery keyboard of


John W. Jobe
(...!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!jobe)