RE: Background Material: A call for Help from US Easterners

--- Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 3:10 PM -0800 12/12/03, Brian B wrote:
> >
> >I dunno about that.	Look at how angry the
> confederate
> >flah makes a lot of African Americans.  The
> >Confederacy carries a bad connotation for
> Blacks.....
> 
> Yes, but things aren't so peachy in in the North.
> Ohio isn't the 
> South. LA isn't the South. And you know, master
> slave in the context 
> of computer harddrives is offensive too!
> 
> 
> Some of the Confederate Flag grousing is similar to
> swastika 
> grousing. "That swastika offends me!!! "umm this is
> the [Finnish 
> flag/buddist sign of good luck/Navaho symbol of the
> sun] you moron."
> 
> Some people can't look beyond their 160 year old
> past and move on. 
> Most of it down here is grousing and BS. Not enough
> in my opinion to 
> really split up a good thing mind you.

IOW, whatever split we see seems less and less likely
to be based on the old Confederacy.....

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"In life, you must try and be the type of person that your dog thinks
you are."

- Anonymous

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