> > Amen
> >
> > > where that really gets me irritated is that
> > blacks can call other blacks that all day long,
> > AND they can use derogatory words for whites
> > (honkey, etc) (no, it doesn't offend me, I really
> > don't care what you call me, but the
> > doublestandard ticks me off) yet if a white guy
> > says it to a black it's bad. Excuse me, but
> > frankly words do not change meaning based
> > on what color the guy who's saying it is. And
> > anyone who thinks they do change meaning is
> > every bit as racist as he claims others to be.
>
> Everybody keeps referring to the N word. Let's see now. Could that be Northerner? North Carolinian? New Englander? New Yorker? Nebraskan?
> Nashvillian? Who cares?
> I know what I am. I'm a Redneck Hillwilliam Gentile Rebel Cracker Honkey Bumpkin and a 14 carrot(sic) Old Coot to boot. Who cares?
> Howard

I think dividing ourselves up and forming groups and organizations based on ethnicity and such is pointless and in fact goes against the way America is supposed to be. On money is the word "E pluribus unum", although it might be spelled differently. I don't speak Latin, but I know that this means "Out of many comes one".

Out of many groups and cultures (Hispanics, blacks, whites, Indians, Chinese people, etc.) comes one (Americans). That's the way it's SUPPOSED to be.

Too bad it's not how it IS.

-eric "sigh..." sleator
Tue 27 Jun A.D. 2000