From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 20:03:33 MDT
From: "Dickey, Michael F" <michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com>
> 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?
No, I was only saying that for an immigrant she had certain privileges not
granted to some U.S. citizens, even (we were discussing my use of the word
"luxury").
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.
... so are you saying the black kids should have been grateful? (BTW, many
black kids were killed, and did starve 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?
... so are you saying the black kids should have been grateful?
Olga
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