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- From: howiegbk@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Jr Howard Mea Turner)
- Subject: not all white males are rich and wealthy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.202947.7282@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <17NOV199213391854@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:29:47 GMT
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- In article <17NOV199213391854@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
- >For example, Tuesday I caught just a snippet of his act wherein he repeated
- >his oft-spoken belief that people should not cluster in groups to demand
- >that rights (his words, mine would be 'equality of rights') be accorded
- >those groups. thEwIndBag's contention is that people should remain as
- >individuals and succeed or fail through individual efforts.
- >
- >Ahem.
- >
- >This is exactly what one would expect from a white male, someone who has to
- >have described to him what it's like to be discriminated against *as a
- >group,* else he'd never have a clue. The reason for folks to band together
- >by gender, or by color, or by sexual orientation to ask for equality of
- >rights is precisely because they are denied that equality simply on the
- >basis of those things that bring them together as a group.
- >
- >One would only expect a white male like thEwIndBag to encourge people not
- >to band together to cure what they see as injustice against them. Simply
- >because he knows that, as individuals, they are as powerless as they ever
- >were and that only by working together can they ever hope to right some of
- >society's injustices toward them.
- >+ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- >| Elliott Mitchell
- >| Peabody College at Vanderbilt University
- >| Nashville, Tenn. Home of the Grand Ole Opry
- >| IN: mitcheec@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu | BN: MITCHEEC@VUCTRVAX
-
-
- By inferring that all white males wish to be oppressive and hold down
- other ethnic, religious, non-heterosexual person, you detract from
- your argument. You have committed the same mistake.
-
- I am a white male. And I am not upper-class, or even upper-middle-class
- in terms of my wealth. And what I think sucks is this:
-
- Scholarship money that should be earmarked for worthy students is
- instead earmarked for minority students. Not to say that these students
- are not worthy, but if they get preferential treatment in scholarship funds,
- isn't that the same as me being discriminated against?
-
- Make it fair, make it even, make it right.
- But don't make it a quota.
-
- Earn it, don't accept it.
-
-
- Howard
-
- P.S. Thanks to all of the people who responded to my previous postings
- politely and intelligently. I appreciated the discourse.
-
-
-