Ah, Color Blindness? Connerly's Deceptive Vision

SF Gate ^ | 5/7/02 | Emil Guillermo

[My2Cents]

Why not just make May "Hyphenated-American Month."....I'm one-quarter Canadian. I can't wait to celebrate May 20th, "Victoria Day" in Canada!....

Actually, considering that the vast majority of people living in the US are here because they were escaping poverity, oppression, repression, discrimination, injustice, or some other ill perpetrated by their country of origin, why would anyone want to celebrate where they came from. Let's celebrate being Americans.

[Abcdefg]

Where's the BARF alert?

[Phantom Lord]

What the hell is "Boxing Day"?

[martin_fierro]

What part of "E Pluribus Unum" doesn't this Balkanizing, bonehead author understand?

[martin_fierro]

What the hell is "Boxing Day"?

I think it's a Canadian thing -- takes place on the day after Christmas.

Might have something to do with working out all those family holiday tensions. <|:)~

[Rays_Dad]

Actually, considering that the vast majority of people living in the US are here because they were escaping poverity, oppression, repression, discrimination, injustice, or some other ill perpetrated by their country of origin, why would anyone want to celebrate where they came from. Let's celebrate being Americans.

I have never thought about it like that - that is a good one. Chip

[mhking]

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[mattdono]

I think Emil is a little frustrated, because every intiative (that I am aware of) that Mr. Connerly has support has been upheld by the courts.

I guess little Emil can only whine and moan about that "mean, old" Mr. Connerly.

[KC_Conspirator]

Racial questionairres orginated in 1930's Germany to find who was what. So in effect, Guillermo is supporting Nazi eugenic policies. Does he even know how ignorant he is?

[Khepera]

Race? I always mark other and write in "Human"!

[GSWarrior]

That's a good one!

[mhking]

Mr. Guillermo, like many other "mainstream" reporters and others in the left wing, feel largely threatened by Ward Connerly and other black conservatives. We don't fit into the "box" that Mr. Guillermo would like us to fit into. Not only that, he loses some measure of "kinship" when he realizes that we don't think with the same measure of victim mentality that he does.

[goodnesswins]

"Boxing Day" the way I understand it used to be the day Canadians spent boxing gifts up and taking them to their neighbors for a visit - today I think it's just another shopping (or returning) day. (I'm no expert, I just lived in Canada for 3 years.)

[Khepera]

It's the only true answer.

[GSWarrior]

Let's celebrate being Americans.

I totally agree. In my ideal world we would be celebrating what unites us, instead of what makes us different.

[Puppage]

Actually, I began in England during Victorian times. The rich would celebrate Xmas, and be waited on by their staff. Of course, the staff couldn't celebrate because they were working, but they recieved a "box" from their employer which usually contained money.

[BlueLancer]

I agree ... my race is human, my nationality is "native-American" because I was born in Rhode Island.

[Gaston]

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, Jr.

California dreamin.