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- From: cwm54@cas.org ()
- Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.131602.18573@cas.org>
- Sender: usenet@cas.org
- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <1e55pdINNbvp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1992Nov15.163526.6672@midway.uchicago.edu> <1ea7lqINNt7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:16:02 GMT
- Lines: 109
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- In article <1ea7lqINNt7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) says:
- >
- >
- >>
- >>I agree with you completely, Ted, and since none of those socially
- >>advanced Solons at Rose-Hulman are likely to put their money where their
- >>mouths are, I posted their little racist diatribe to
- >>soc.culture.african.american for them. It disgusts me when the trendy
- >>subject in campus humor centers around harassment of the hearing impaired
- >>and race hatred.
- >>
- >
- >
- >
- >I'll bet you and Ted Frank were the kind of kids who used to
- >enjoy destroying anthills and frying bugs with magnifying glasses.
- >You know, immaturely spiteful. I used to be like that too
- >but at least I grew up and changed my childish spitefulness.
- >
- >
- >Yep, because of your invite, I went over to soc.culture.african.american
- >to see what they'd say about your post. Seems like there was
- >no response, eh? Or rather,the only lifeblood of the omar-issue
- >was Ted Frank's and your posts. Tell me, did you feel like you
- >were kicking a dying horse, trying to get it up to trot even
- >though it was the least bit interested in your actions???
- >
- >Anyway, I don't think that you needed to assume that every
- >Soc.culture.African.American would be ballistic over this issue. Sure
- >it makes fun of the way some jive-speaking people talk, but is
- >it that big of a deal? Look at the [lack of] supportive response you
- >got.
- >
- >
- >For sake of comparison, look at something as simple as the Mario
- >Brothers video game. Are we to think that, like the jive-filter
- >programmer and user, the Mario Brothers programmer(s) take humor
- >in the fact that ALL Italians are named Mario and have funny little
- >handlebar mustaches and are carpenters who act like bumbling
- >idiots, knocking their head into mushrooms and all other kinds
- >of things? Hey, we're all differnent and that makes life interesting.
- >To this day I hear people speak jive-talk, and I sometimes have
- >to ask a person to repeat him/herself because I couldn't understand
- >their phrasing. I sometimes hear two people speaking jive-english
- >and it's amazing to me that they understand each other. It's
- >out there, it's a dialect that is used today, and doggone it,
- >it's sometimes funny to me to think that these people, whose snippets
- >of conversations I accidentally overhear, understand each other!!
- >It amazes me! Yep the jive filter is funny to me, and I can say
- >from the bottom of my heart that I am not a racist. You may think
- >I am, but it's my opinion that this world will end before
- >everyone thinks alike and noone gets offended by someone else.
- >
- >Anyway, sorry that it rained on your expectant parade of
- >band-wagon-jumping soc.culture.A.A'ers.
- >
- >NOT!!!
- >
- >Later!
- >
- >B.
- >
- >By the way, after reading Omar's response somewhere up there, I
- >agree with anyone who thinks that it's time to lay off the
- >Omar stories UNLESS...
- >
- >1. He gives the nose-up to those previous alt.folklore.college
- > posters ho will hopefully try to inform him of his
- > annoying behavior. After all, he asked for help.
- >
- >and/or
- >
- >2. Omar in return post some stories about his "attackers" since
- > all's fair in love and war.
- >
- >
- >
- >Later again!
- >
- >Send all flames to me! My room has an outside wall and it gets
- >cooooold in Cleveland this time of year!
- >--
- >Branimir Dokic
- >Radio-Telivizija-Beograd
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- I can't speak for all blacks obviously, but many of us are very
-
- appreciative to Ted and the other guy for bringing this to our
-
- attention. Don't believe for one second that our lack of response
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- translates to lack of disgust. It's just that you guys are minor
-
- league racists. We're much too busy dealing with more sophisticated
-
- and subtle people of your ilk... but we remember,we remember.
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- my views only and not those of cas
-