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From: ran@ho95b.UUCP (ran)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Blatant Racism?
Message-ID: <256@ho95b.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 09:50:06 EST
Article-I.D.: ho95b.256
Posted: Mon Nov 26 09:50:06 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Nov-84 04:12:28 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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There was a report on the local news here last night about
black families and businesses moving into a mostly white
suburb of New York.  There was getting to be quite a number
of black-owned businesses (restaurants and the like).  The
local white community was aghast and have organized a
BOYCOTT of the black businesses, and have pickets on duty
during open hours.  The blacks say they are just trying
to make a living, and that the boycott is really hurting them,
but the whites say that the blacks are just inserting themselves
where they are not wanted, and ruining the character of the
neighborhood.

I find this racist attitude and boycott to be thoroughly disgusting.

FLAME ON!!!

I lied about the above story.  In reality, it is taking place
in Harlem.  It is a predominantly black community.  A number
of Koreans (with US citizenship) are moving in and setting up
businesses, and the black community has organized the boycott,
and claimed that the neighborhood is being ruined.

How does THAT affect your indignation?  If discrimination
and racism frost me, hypocrisy about it really frosts me!
(I suppose some flames would thaw me out :-))

FLAME OFF.

-- 

". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch."
       Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95b!ran)
       AT&T-Bell Labs