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From: guillory@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (guillory stanford s)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
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Date: 22 Jul 88 14:12:05 GMT
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In article <4311@cbmvax.UUCP> lauren@cbmvax.UUCP (Lauren Brown CATS) writes:
>Why does the above, and many more points being made during this debate,
>remind me of the "Separate but Equal" philosophy of South Africa?  And
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>we all know just how successful *that's* been.
>Lauren Brown      -- CBM   >>Amiga Technical Support<<

     Maybe I am a bit shaky on my South African history, but in all the
reading I have done on the area, I have never encountered any evidence
that Aparthied was, is or was ever intended to be a "separate but equal"
policy. In fact it has always been intended as a separate and very 
unequal policy. The Afrikaaners aren't subtle about their racism the
way Caucasian Americans were in the fifties with Brown vs. BOE.
     Also, how are you comparing the idea of women being equal with
a separate but equal policy. Women don't have to go to predominantly
female schools, they don't have to use separate water fountains , 
they don't have to ride in the back of the bus. They aren't pressured to
live in poor ghettos away from upper class men. (Thank heavens!). I
don't see the connection. But I will ask a question of the women posting
so that I may clear up any problems I have in this area. Should I begin
thinking of women as men, or should I consider them as beings with 
slightly different physical characteristics who are capable of doing
anything that I am capable of, and in many cases more? I have always
assumed the latter position, but I am open to discussion.

Stanford S. Guillory
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