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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: career vs. relationships
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Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 20:54:35 EST
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In article <1400@gitpyr.UUCP> jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (Jean McSpadden) writes:
>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? 

Since when is pointing out an observed fact (that blacks are more likely
to be crime victims from other blacks than from whites) racist?  Don't
bother answering, it has the same answer as "since when is pointing out
an observed fact sexist?".  (Answer: when you don't like the fact.)

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720