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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: National Brotherhood of Skiiers?
- References: <javad.721589037@nsisrv> <SSH.92Nov13093055@snow.boulder.ibm.com> <1992Nov15.175518.8454@edsr.eds.com>
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 19:03:42 GMT
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- >Really? A ski club for African Americans? I have noted throughout my some
- >25 years of skiing that skiing is one sport where you simply do not see
- >many black people, and I think the reasons are obvious.
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- I'm a little fuzzy on the "obvious." Can you elaborate? Do you mean the
- current economic situation? Just curious.
-
- >trying to picture someone like Herschel Walker,
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- Not certain who he is. One typically doesn't see African-Americans in
- climbing, but I saw one on Saturday. And I know a couple from LA.
- To others: I don't regard what Kelly said in a negative way, I just want
- clarification. I've yet to hear of an Asian-American ski club,
- and our numbers are relatively small. I don't regard Asian cultures as
- highly conducive to skiing.
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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