From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 14:59:30 MDT
From: Olga Bourlin
"And yet, the hardships my relatives faced didn't come anywhere close to the
nightmarish conditions under which many people in the USA lived ... in their
very own country. I'll say it again ... in their very own country. A white
immigrant Jewish-albeit-agnostic woman (i.e., Ayn) could live a far, far
better life than black people anywhere (especially in the South). Ayn
married an American actor. Doors opened. Speaking of "earning" - it's a
luxury even to speculate about whether Ayn "earned anything." My concern at
that time (early 1960s) was with why many black children couldn't swim in
the same pool as "white" children. Whatever did white children "earn" to be
given this privileged status?"
So because in some places black kids couldnt swim in the same place as white
kids Ayn Rand didnt achieve anything through hard work? Can you explain the
rational behind that?
Whatever did white children do to 'earn' the status of swimming in pools?
Well, what did you do to 'earn' the right to own a computer, or to eat more
than a third of a cup of rice a day? Or to be anything other than a poor
peasant farmer? Or to eat any food at all? What did you do to 'earn' the
right to free speech, or the possession of property? Why should YOU be
allowed to partake in these things when others can not?
What does *any* of this have to do with Ayn Rand? Are you saying that
because she was allowed to swim in pools with white kids that none of her
hard work or effort was really that hard? Well, black kids may not have
been allowed to swim in pools with white kids, but at least they were alive,
and werent starving to death. Compared to the life of the average chinese
citizen under Mao, the cambodian under pol pot, or any south vietnamese
after the US withdrawel those poor black kids lived in a utoptia. So whos
to say those poor black kids had to work hard to get anywhere? Its all
relative, right?
Michael
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