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[Bo Briggs]

Frog Prince wrote:

> "Bo Briggs"
> 
> | > | I'm not in the USA. Racism is limited to US residents.
> | >
> | > ?????
> 
> | And the answer, Frog, to Marjolein's comment, is that she showed her arse.
> |
> | Of course, there is no racism in the Europe, and especially in the
> | Netherlands. NO SUCH THING as anti-semitism or racist attitudes towards
> Islam
> | there....NOOOO.WAAAAY.
> |
> | http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-10-96-1616.jsp
> |
> | Not saying there's no racism in the US. But I am saying that of my 10
> years on
> | usenet, I've never seen such a ridiculous statement made by someone that
> was
> | not a kook or that I had respect for, like Marjolein.
> |
> | She's just wrong. I have a feeling (and I hope) that she'll retract the
> statement.
> 
> She's mistaken in a lot of what we are bantering about but she is right in
> that racism or -ism of any sort should not be tolerated.  We can take

Not sure that anyone is arguing against that. She said it was isolated in the US.

> 
> I grew up in the deep south in the 40-50 saw things first hand and had my
> a** whipped by more than a few 'good old boys' for speaking out.  Eventually
> more and more saw the wisdom of my position. Perhaps because I was right.
> Or perhaps because as I grew up, a** whipping me had a significantly higher
> cost ( I lost a lot less fights <g>)
> 

Grew up deep/ or near/deep South in 60's. Busing. People just wanted to go to 
school where they lived. But eventually everyone got used to it. Some 
problems, but eventually, everything worked out. Then in the 70's the courts 
ordered people in the North to do the same thing. I've never seen such an 
outrage. No racism in the North? You tell me. Everytime I hear something like 
this I don't know whether I want to laugh or cry, but there is a real 
prejudice from northerners against southerners :: they think that all 
southerners are racists. Very wrong.

http://www.policyreview.org/nov98/busing.html

Yes. Slavery existed in the South. Yes, it was wrong. Do Northerners still 
believe we're racists here? Yes, some of them do.

Here's the point: People that are 'holier than thou', like Marjoleine, ought 
to look in their own back yard and clean that up first. Then she can talk.

-- 
Bo Briggs