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01-21-2007, 12:03 AM

In article <1169315374.642402.255070@38g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
frkrygow@gmail.com writes:
>
> Tom Keats wrote:
>>
>> > Are you REALLY going to say that races don't have activities at which they
>> > are better than others?
>>
>> Yup.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be a cryin' shame if there was a South-African
>> Black person or Samoan or Mauri or Fijian Picasso/Einstein/
>> Menhuin/(Frank Lloyd) Wright who never got to live up to
>> their potential because Society determined they must go through
>> the motions of playing rugby in order to entertain other people?
>
> I feel sorriest for those poor Mbuti people who have been denied
> careers in pro basketball.

It's bad when /anybody/ doesn't get even half a fightin'
chance to at least try out and show what they've got,
because they're being off-handedly dismissed from the get-go.

How sorry would you feel about an intelligent, compassionate
and articulate Mbuti woman who's denied an education & career
in medical research, or anthropology, or astrophysics, or
literature, or business, simply because of where she hails
from, and is considered to be "too primitive" or too "not
white" for such lofty goals?

cheers,
Tom

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01-21-2007, 12:03 AM	#85 (permalink)
Tom Keats Posts: n/a	Re: Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland In article <1169315374.642402.255070@38g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>, frkrygow@gmail.com writes: > > Tom Keats wrote: >> >> > Are you REALLY going to say that races don't have activities at which they >> > are better than others? >> >> Yup. >> >> Wouldn't it be a cryin' shame if there was a South-African >> Black person or Samoan or Mauri or Fijian Picasso/Einstein/ >> Menhuin/(Frank Lloyd) Wright who never got to live up to >> their potential because Society determined they must go through >> the motions of playing rugby in order to entertain other people? > > I feel sorriest for those poor Mbuti people who have been denied > careers in pro basketball. It's bad when /anybody/ doesn't get even half a fightin' chance to at least try out and show what they've got, because they're being off-handedly dismissed from the get-go. How sorry would you feel about an intelligent, compassionate and articulate Mbuti woman who's denied an education & career in medical research, or anthropology, or astrophysics, or literature, or business, simply because of where she hails from, and is considered to be "too primitive" or too "not white" for such lofty goals? cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca