From: Ziggy@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: Ethnicity and Hostility
Date: Sun Aug  7 01:38:31 1994

After reading through all those messages -- I feel that I must reply.

Pele: I think you have a valid reason to be hostile -- to some extent,
and I can see why in that type of a situation you would let your anger 
fly. However, you need to read the messages a bit more closely. I did not 
say in any way, shape, or form that I thought racism was dying out. 

Regardless of what everyone believes, I think that Natalie made one 
extremely important point: that people need to quit looking at things from 
the past, namely ethnicity. Sure, our ancestors tormented the black race. 
I, living in 1994, am aware of this, but you cannot justify venting your 
anger on me, an individual who had no control over what was going on is 
years passed. I have no problem with people sticking to their heritage, 
but I don't like people bringing up problems that are irreversible.

The Indians have as much a claim to racism as you do, Pele.

Let dead dogs lie.