RE: Vicious Racism was RE: Reparations

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 00:58:56 MDT


>From: "Mitchell, Jerry (3337)" <Jerry.Mitchell@esavio.com>

>If your going to
>use the word racist, please have the common courtesy to know what it means,
>and how it differs from bigoted and discriminatory.

If your bigotry and/or discrimination are directed at another based upon
that other's race, you are a racist, no?

>P.S. Another pet peeve of mine is there is no such word as "Disrepecting"!
>Webster would be rolling over in his grave :)

While the English professor hats are on the table, one of *my* pet peeves is
use of the possesive pronoun "your" in place of the correct conraction for
the phrase "you are."

-Zero

"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)

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