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From: marsh@enmasse.UUCP (Marshall Glassner)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics,net.music
Subject: Re: White greed
Message-ID: <344@enmasse.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 10:29:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 14 10:29:13 1985
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Reply-To: marsh@enmasse.UUCP (Marshall Glassner)
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Summary: 

In article <80@spar.UUCP> ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes:
>>Please explain to me why *I* should be penalized for something my *ancestors*
>>did? Yes, whites in America did something most people consider wrong, years
>>ago. {...several arguments against affirmative action plans...}
>>
>	White people are enjoying an inheritance that was STOLEN by
>	300 years of slavery and 100 years of legal and social prejudice.
>
>    Until white people recognize that they are simply being asked to
>    share their ill-gotten gains, there will be little room for intelligent
>    debate about anything.
>
>-michael

The gains of my family are far from ill-gotten.  My Jewish great-grandparents
emigrated from Germany where they were treated like shit, and my
grandfather's life as an plumber and electrician could hardly be compared
with Simon Legree's.

I reject your attempt to include me in some all-encompassing White Man
category.  The Cabots and Lodges and the slaveholders of pre-20th 
century America and the bigots of Selma have **nothing** in common with me.
I don't discriminate, and I expect the same from others.

Marshall Glassner