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response 28 of 57:
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Aug 13 11:54 UTC 2003 |
my "white" friend from s. africa applied for educational grants for
"african-americans".
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novomit
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response 29 of 57:
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Aug 13 12:06 UTC 2003 |
I always use "black". "African American" is a bit of a mouthful.
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bru
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response 30 of 57:
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Aug 13 13:59 UTC 2003 |
I say they should just call themselves american and have done with it.
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janc
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response 31 of 57:
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Aug 13 15:22 UTC 2003 |
In the best of all possible worlds, certainly. But when I encounter a black
man on the street, blackness is still the first thing I notice and I have
many associations with that impression, which, in spite of my best efforts,
color my thinking. When we are all past that, then we can throw away the
labels. As long as we all percieve a "thing" there, we will want a name for
it.
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response 32 of 57:
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Aug 13 15:31 UTC 2003 |
i think this is due to the fact that there is still pretty severe segregation
in the US, mostly economic. i don't notice someone's color first anymore after
having lived for 6 years in a dominantly 'black' neighborhood where _I_ was
the minority, and everyone looked at me firstly being white.
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edina
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response 33 of 57:
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Aug 13 16:42 UTC 2003 |
Here in DC, I rarely notice color - I go home to Tecumseh and someone who is
black seems to stand out.
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tod
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response 34 of 57:
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Aug 13 17:30 UTC 2003 |
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happyboy
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response 35 of 57:
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Aug 13 19:11 UTC 2003 |
re:30 *they* probably don't really care what *you* think,
stinky
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polytarp
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response 36 of 57:
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Aug 14 10:25 UTC 2003 |
There aren't many Negroes in Cobourg, but, you know what, I saw one just
to-day, some Negroe with a white kid: What the fuck else are the Negroes
going to do, but get white friends?
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tod
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response 37 of 57:
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Aug 14 16:46 UTC 2003 |
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jep
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response 38 of 57:
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Aug 17 03:21 UTC 2003 |
re resp:28: I speculated about someone doing that a half dozen years
ago; a descendant of white South Africans applying for African
American scholarships. How did it work out for your friend?
re resp:33: I've talked to two black co-workers about moving to
Clinton or Tecumseh. I warned them both that Clinton is almost 100%
white, and Tecumseh is nearly so. In 6 years of having kids go to
Clinton schools, I knew only one black student in Clinton.
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response 39 of 57:
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Aug 17 07:31 UTC 2003 |
Yes, but do Clinton/Tecumseh have the, ah, "racially pure" social
heritage of the Brighton/Howell/Fowlerville corridor?
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jep
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response 40 of 57:
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Aug 17 12:52 UTC 2003 |
I vaguely remember hearing something about the KKK around Brighton,
several years ago. I've never heard anything like that about Clinton
or Tecumseh.
But, dangit, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if I did hear
something along those lines someday. People choose to live where
they're comfortable, and if people move to an all-white town, it's
often because that's how they want to live. It's hardly impossible to
believe that, in an all-white town, there are those who will go to
extremes to keep their town all-white.
I don't know of any bigotry near where I live, but I haven't looked
for it. My brother lives in Pulaski, Tennessee, the town where the
KKK was formed, and in the area where many of it's originators lived.
I've never seen any bigotry there, either. Not myself I haven't.
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dcat
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response 41 of 57:
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Aug 17 21:14 UTC 2003 |
The original KKK or the 20th-century KKK? The original post-Civil-War KKK
was not the same 'organization' that exists now.
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jep
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response 42 of 57:
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Aug 17 23:45 UTC 2003 |
The KKK to which I referred was founded a year or two after the end of
the Civil War in Pulaski, TN.
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bru
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response 43 of 57:
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Aug 18 01:32 UTC 2003 |
1924 at 4-6 million nationally, and 115,000 in Alabama The KKK wa founded
on stoner mountain Georgia in 1915 after the founders watched "Birth of a
Nation.
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response 44 of 57:
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Aug 18 14:35 UTC 2003 |
i can't remeber jep, and i'm not in contact with him anymore to ask
unfortunately. i *think* he did get some grant money, after some hassel about
whether his skin color would prevent this.
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tod
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response 45 of 57:
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Aug 18 20:04 UTC 2003 |
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albaugh
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response 46 of 57:
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Aug 19 21:57 UTC 2003 |
"Stoner" Mountain - Freudian slip? ;-)
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tod
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response 47 of 57:
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Aug 20 03:33 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 48 of 57:
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Aug 20 15:44 UTC 2003 |
I saw a motel near Coram, Montana called 'Stoner's Inn'.
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tod
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response 49 of 57:
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Aug 20 19:09 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 50 of 57:
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Aug 21 13:28 UTC 2003 |
I found that hilarious when I was out there. My friend, who has lived
in the area all his life, had never seen the humor until then.
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mcnally
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response 51 of 57:
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Aug 23 07:08 UTC 2003 |
Hmmm.. I decided, while driving across the country this year, that the
prize in the hotly-contested convenience-store division of this year's
"What the hell were they thinking when they named that?" contest should
go to South Dakota's "Kum-and-Go" stores, edging out last year's winner,
Minnesota's "Pump-n-Munch" chain..
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tod
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response 52 of 57:
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Aug 23 13:16 UTC 2003 |
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