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01-21-2007, 02:54 AM

"Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
Yes, Tom, you nailed it. The reason Africa is not far removed from the stone
age is because "they haven't been given a chance". Never mind the trillions
of dollars which have been poured into that continent throughout history.

01-21-2007, 02:54 AM	#86 (permalink)
Gooserider Posts: n/a	Re: Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland "Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message news8avoe.38a.ln@bud.garden.local... > 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? > Yes, Tom, you nailed it. The reason Africa is not far removed from the stone age is because "they haven't been given a chance". Never mind the trillions of dollars which have been poured into that continent throughout history.