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Subject: Re: Discrimination
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 14:53:12 EDT
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Awright, Mr. Ellis, listen up!

I'm a white male (last time I looked), and the one notable thing
about my early education (both home, in a lesser way, and school,
in a major way) was that I was urged to follow my father into the
steel mills, since THAT WAS MY PLACE IN LIFE.  Gee, doesn't that
sound like discrimination?  (I MUST have done something funny
on those college boards, I was told. Why?  Because such scores
weren't expected of me. Of course, everyone <including the
good teachers who weren't asked for THEIR opinion> didn't
believe that, but I was expected to believe that all the
tests were freaks, and that I shouldn't go to a "good, 
competitive, school".  <I seem to, ahem, have survived, grumble,
snarl, expletive>  Gee, why should I take college bound
courses, after all, "You'll just go work in the <now closed> mill",
and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on.)

OK, given that I (and, I'm sure, many other white males) have
been just as discriminated against (national origin counts
as much as race in some places, Michael) why do I have to
be DISCRIMINATED AGAINST by AA agenda.  
Why do I get put into last place on all sorts of lists just 
because I'm white and male?   (I seem to have learned how to
deal with that, but I shouldn't HAVE to deal with it at all, damnit!)

Does your idea of vengence include making enemies out of those
who KNOW what it's like, and who do their best  to keep it from happening
to ANYONE?  Is that what you'd like?  Did it ever occur to you
that some of us see how to make life BETTER for everyone, INSTEAD
of dragging everyone DOWN TO THE LOWEST?  Come on, BUILD, damnit,
that's how to make everyone more happy.  Build, and if someone
tries to take what you've built, simply don't let them.

Oh, Michael, (and others) why don't you consider what some of the
people on the "other side" think?
-- 
TEDDY BEARS HAVE LIMITED PATIENCE! THEY DO EVENTUALLY GET HUNGRY!
"What's the use of bearing bracers, hats or spats or shoes
with laces, or the things they buy in places down on Brompton Row?

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