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From: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (Jean McSpadden)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: career vs. relationships
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 13:26:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 13:26:49 1986
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In article <660@rti-sel.UUCP> wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) writes:
> We make sexist
>and racist assessments because the constraints of a sexist and racist
>society have taught us to do so. An American in a big city who meets a
>black person after dark is more likely to be afraid of being mugged 
>than an American who meets a white person after dark. An American who
>

Sorry Bill, but your racist assumptions are showing, or are you really
suggesting that a black American would be more afraid meeting a black
person after dark then he would a white person? 

> But the place to begin
>change is at home: if each of us recognizes sexist and racist
>tendencies in h/erself and nips it in the bud (and disapproves of
>racist and sexist comments on the part of family and friends) we'll at
>least have taken a small step toward the just and fair society implied
>by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
>
Hear! Hear!
                                Jean McSpadden
-- 
J. Kenneth Riviere   (JoKeR)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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