At 7:51pm -0500, 04/16/07, Carl  wrote:

>After the whole Imus event I was listening to the radio and I heard someone
>say that we've never had a national dialogue on race in this country.  It's
>a comment I've heard quite often, but for some reason today I started
>wondering about it.

>Exactly what do the people that make that statement want?  It's not as if
>race isn't brought up... people are talking about it all the time.  I can't
>think of many topics in which race isn't brought up.

>I'm not saying that we shouldn't discuss race. I'm just asking what context
>the people that bring up a "national dialogue" are talking about.

>FWIW, this is the only newsgroup that I've ever come across that I have
>enough faith in the people here that I would even think of asking this
>question.

Let's do it metaphorically, say, Narn versus Centauri. Thank goodness for 
fiction that's a thinly veiled commentary on our society.
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