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>> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:25:00 -0400, Mac Breck wrote
(in article ):

> "Amy Guskin"  wrote in message
> news:0001HW.C1397A3E02A58E48F0407530{at}news.verizon.net...
>> 
>> Phil, to be fair to Joe, _you're_ the one who said "African American
>> engineered."  Now, I have no idea what that means,
> 
> Then, look it up.  Hey, it's what I do when I don't understand
> somebody's slang (e.g. UK slang).   <<

If you'd read the thread, you'd have already read that I _DID_ look it up, 
and "African American engineered" was not in the dictionary, or the urban 
dictionary.  Jan had to explain to me what the _real_ phrase was.

>>>> but I don't see how it can
>> be taken as anything _but_ a racist comment.
> 
> Because you didn't look it up. <<

Yes, I DID.

>>>> And if you don't know his race,
>> why would you call him that?
> 
> You're taking it too literally.  It DOES NOT extent to knowing the race
> of the person who did the job. <<

It DOES NOT HAVE TO extend to knowing the race of the person who did the job. 
 It's an ugly, racist comment, even if directed toward Pat Boone, the whitest 
of white men!  It has to do with the _word itself_.

Amy
                                                                           
                                                 
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