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- From: zaidioa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: my two cents, as long as this flame is still burning...
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 16:24:41 GMT
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- Can you guys please give the racism issue a rest??
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- geez..
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- maybe I can say something to make my views clear , since no one has heard
- anything from me regarding this issue, which frankly I think has been beaten
- into the ground..
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- #1... I do not think the jive posting was intended to be racist. Some of you
- might take it as being that way, but that's your problem.. not mine.
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- #2... The bio I wrote was in my CS account here and I had no idea till I was
- told that someone had gotten it. I was asked to write it by a friend at Indiana
- University and she told me what she wanted in there...
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- #3... I resent the whole idea of racism and my heritage being used as a stick
- to beat a dead horse. If I am going to be successful in the world, I want it to
- be because of my abilities, not because I'm of an ethnic minority group and I
- wear hearing aids. For the record, I do not use sign language as 99% of the
- people with my severity of hearing loss would. For those skeptics, look it
- up... I have a hearing loss (mean) of 75 dB in each ear.. Most people with that
- loss wouldn't even be able to get through the regular school system without
- help, much less play a musical instrument as I do
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- #4... I don't mind giving people a laugh occassionally, but what I resent is
- being cut down behind my back.. There is no excuse for that and I will not
- tolerate it. I was not raised to descend to a level of name calling.
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- #5... I was raised to take pride in myself and I admit, at times I do flaunt
- it. IT's something I'm trying to change and I hope that some people will at
- least see it that way..
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- enough said.. back to finals
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- Omar Zaidi
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