From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 22:37:27 MDT
From: "Randall Randall" <wolfkin@freedomspace.net>
> Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> > No, Techno, this was a very, very bad point - and totally erroneous. In
my
> > reply to Max I stated this was not about poverty (if you disagree with
my
> > post, let me know why this is about poverty). I brought up an example
> > using white kids and black kids, and someone "read" poverty into this.
This
> > in itself is somewhat telling, don't you think?
>
> Telling, that some people here assumed that you must be talking about
> poverty, since they normally don't see any real difference in skin color?
I'm assuming you're joking. (I don't know you well enough - you are
joking, aren't you?) The example I mentioned was about how white kids could
swim in a pool, and black kids could not (and one can't ignore the reference
to skin color - it's a "built-in" to the whole point).
This is not just a story, but has personal repercussions. This actually
happened to someone very close to me, when he was a child.
Olga
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