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From: wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: The Fish
Message-ID: <657@frog.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 18:47:19 EST
Article-I.D.: frog.657
Posted: Thu Feb 13 18:47:19 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 14:49:19 EST
References: <77700001@hpfclg.UUCP>
Reply-To: wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert)
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Organization: The Church of the Holy Starship
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Summary: a search for counter-examples

In article <77700001@hpfclg.UUCP> neutron@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
>I keep seeing ads for businesses that have a stylized fish somewhere
>in the ad.  Presumably this means: "I am a Christian.  Buy from me,
>other Christians".  This strikes me as really lousy.  What if I placed
>an ad and made sure to include "(white person)" at the end?

I hope I'm wrong about this, but I've NEVER seen that symbol in a ad
for a black-owned business, and the reaction of one "fishy" apartment
rental agency when I turned out to have a black apartment-mate, makes
me wonder . . . .

Please don't flame me, I'd LIKE to be wrong about this one.

				STella Calvert

		Every man and every woman is a star.

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