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To: neverdem
Over the course of the semester, class discussions veered from little things, like ways to remember to bring books to school . . .

If you need to have "ways to remember to bring books to school," you're too stupid to be in college. That's like my stylist not bringing her hair dryer or curling iron to work.
42 posted on 12/30/2003 12:29:35 PM PST by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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To: Xenalyte
Dr. Jackson, a short black man with a shaved head, told the class he knew what they were facing. Not long ago, when he had taken a guest to dinner at Tavern on the Green, he was led past a row of empty tables to one at the back of the room, jammed up against a Christmas tree.

"I didn't get angry," he told the students. "I said: `I'm sorry. This is not what I want.' It makes no sense to get nasty and ugly." His table was changed.

Jeez, the perpetuation of victim hood. What an ass. He's made two assumptions that could be totally wrong. 1) Being seated next to the tree was a bad thing. There could have any number of good reasons to do that. To other people it may have been the preferred table. 2) It was done because he is black. Sigh . . . This presumes that there was something wrong with the table to start with. But even if it was a bad table there are reasons other than his blackness that he could have been seated there. It may have been something as simple as it was the waitress' turn in that section to have a customer.

I swear, these idiots think that every decision a white person makes is based primarily on the color of their skin. I don't suppose it occurs to him that bad things happen to him because he is an @SSHOLE!!!

45 posted on 12/30/2003 12:45:27 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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