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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: they vs it vs he vs she
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 07:54:27 EDT
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Associating darkness with evil has nothing to do with
race.  Consider that the Asians, most south sea islanders, the
eskimos, the laplanders, and dozens of other cultures associated
darkness with evil long before they ever even heard that
a race of people with black skins existed.  The association
of black with evil has most to do with nightime and the
terrors that existed in men's minds at the back of the
caves they lived in 20,000 years ago.  Black skinned people
harboured the same fears for the darkness that fair skinned
people did.  The modern association is nothing more than
a hobby horse dreamed up to give some sociologists a chance
to present doctorial thesis'.
T. C. Wheeler