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From: Doeadeer3 (doeadeer3@aol.com)                        Search Result 871
Subject: Re: A Story of Racism
Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Date: 1998/12/18       View: Complete Thread (53 articles) | Original Format

In article <75cfsl$p0o@journal.concentric.net>,
jmcgrew-at-cris-dot-com@guess.org (Jesse McGrew) writes:

>It's racism if you really thought of him as a lesser person. If you called
>him a hustler and *to you* that means he's not worth as much, and you called
>him that because of his skin color, then you were being racist.
>
>However, if I call someone a hustler because I think hustlers are cool, and
>he takes it the wrong way, it's not racism. Yes, I've offended him and I
>should apologize, but I wasn't expecting such a reaction, nor did what I
>called him have any negative meaning in my mind.
>
>I think the point of yours that was unclear was that, *to you as well as to
>him*, a hustler is not as good as a real businessman.

Well, how about this. Both were true. I thought I was telling him was *cool*.
But I was also telling him he wasn't a business man.

It is not that a business man is "better" than *cool*, it is why did I see
Charles as more a *cool* man than a business man? Would I have seen a white
business man in the same way, as more a *cool* man than a business man?
Doubtful.

And to Charles he WAS a business man, not a *cool* unbusiness-like man.

Charles was the one, remember, that got to "name" it.

Doe's Ghost :-)

(I have always hated the word Caucasian, I am no more Caucasian than I am
white, so if someone objects to the word white, then find me a better word than
Caucasian, my ancestors didn't come from the Caucaus.)

Doe      doeadeer3@aol.com       (formerly known as FemaleDeer)
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"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."  Mark Twain

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