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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Planned Parenthood posting
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 22:14:14 EDT
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>>> In the late 50's, a lot of Klan-types tried to assert that rock music was a
>>> Negro plot to destroy the good White kids. Maybe you still believe that.
>>> [Charles Forsythe]

>>No I don't believe that, I never even heard that theme before, sounds like
>>maybe you're the only one who did hear it.  By the way Charlie, Elvis was 
>>white.  [Ray Frank]

> Sorry to tell you, Ray, Mr. Forsythe is right.  I am old enough to remember
> the 50's first hand.  A lot of White Citizen Council types said exactly
> that.  Of course, if you, the ultimate authority on everyting, don't
> remember it, it didn't happen.  Elvis's skin color is irrelevent. [TANENBAUM]

Well, it is relevant in a roundabout sort of way.  When Elvis' music was first
breaking, Colonel Tom Parker (his manager) had to physically take him around
to many radio stations, because they were convinced he was black, and they
wouldn't play "black music" (or "race music", as it was called).  I think we've
seen enough examples of Ray's illiteracy when it comes to the issues (in
net.religion, he claimed that the USA was founded as a Christian country and
that we should "return" to that).  What scares me is not that he is a standout
crackpot.  What scares me is that I fear he is typical.  Isn't Marcel Simon
having it out with someone else in this newsgroup who claims "sex outside
marriage is wrong regardless of religion, because ... uh ..."?  This is what
is scary.  This sort of "thinking" is the status quo.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan
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	Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr