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Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 8 Jul 1999 19:37:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I can only assume that Thomas Main was offended by the interaction
> between Ed and I, and on reflection it seems that Ed is taking it more
> personally than I am or intended. I have discussions like this in real
> life and mostly people don't get angry; at worst they pity me for being • broken.
>
Not at all, see my response to Larry on this - you claimed to lack an
appropriate flippant response - so I provided it.
But I must say, that the original suggestion of sterilization made my skin
crawl.
> Now, on with the circus...
But on to the serious responses..
I wrote:
> > As an example - in Lexington, KY if you go into a "good"
> > restraurant, expect to find white maitre'd, white waiter/waitress and black
> > busboys.
This is now, and has everything to do with racism.
> If you check the news records of the court ordered desegregation for St.
> Louis, you will find a front page picture on the St. Louis Post Dispatch
> of a little blonde boy named Christopher Weeks who was the first kid in
> St. Louis County to volunteer for the tin mile bussing to a mostly black
> St. Louis City school. Since that's me, I know that I begged my parents
> to let me do that when I was between fourth and fifth grade. I guess
> you could say that I am somewhat familiar with segregation and the fight
> to end it.
Glad to hear it.
> Why is that? My parents didn't get any student loans. They couldn't
> because there was too much competition during the baby boom and since
> they were blue-collar kids they had to work instead of being in bad and
> football and student government and so all scholarships and loans went
> to kids who had done those other things instead.
Either did I. The rest of my family is blue collar. My father was a
machinist. I have worked since I was 14. I never had the chance to
participate in sports in high school either. I worked my way through college
doing a 4-midnight shift 5 days a week while going to school. Yeah it took me 5
years instead of 4, but I did it.
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> > :P
>
> What does this emoticon mean?
:P - Its a tongue sticking out of the corner of the mouth.
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