Re: Mr.Genius

On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Mel wrote:

> I don't discriminate against Europeans... I am white myself... but it has
> become very clear to us living in South Africa how racist the European and
> Americans are in their outlook towards Africa as a whole...

	That is too bad...  Here in my small city of Saskatoon, (located 
in Saskatchewan-- a province in middle Canada), we don't honestly care
all that much as a whole about whether someone is black or not. It's more
about whether you are red or white as those are two largest racial 
factions.  See, you can be East Indian, Chinese, Black, Japanese or
Malaysian and nobody cares but if your ancestors were the people who were 
here first, well damn, can't have that-- you must automatically be of low
class, committing robberies and murder and rip off the System in yer 
spare time...  

        Moving on, if you are white, then you must be rich and you must
hate all Native folks. You couldn't possibly have fair skin and also Cree
grandparents, eh? --Or your best friend couldn't possibly be Nishnaabe
Indian.  You couldn't have an Algonkin grandmother several generations
back and still be proud of ALL of your ancestors...  Oh yeah, and lastly, 
if you are from the Middle East, you are thought of as a terrorist
immediately. My friend Sara-- who is 1/2 British and 1/2 Egyptian-- gets
that crap all the time.  It's BS.  Aside from all of that, nobody really
cares.  We just hope you'll pretend to love everyone like we do until
you're gone.

        Racism-- every group has it, regardless of what may be said in
objection to that statement. The proof is in the pudding... and it all
seems especially ridiculous to me, having been Ba'hai as a child.  The
Ba'hai encourage all lands and people accepting each other and working
together.

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Talis,
wishing everyone a happy late-december holiday season if they celebrate
anything in particular at this time of the year! (:>

               -= http://talis_white_Crow.tripod.com/ =-

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