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- From: hdnea@usho92.hou281.chevron.com (David Neal)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: National Brotherhood of Skiiers?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.212441.20711@nntpserver.chevron.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:24:41 GMT
- References: <SSH.92Nov13093055@snow.boulder.ibm.com> <1992Nov15.175518.8454@edsr.eds.com> <1992Nov16.190342.234@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov16.190342.234@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >I'm a little fuzzy on the "obvious." Can you elaborate? Do you mean the
- >current economic situation? Just curious.
- >
-
- Perhaps he meant those good old hollywood stereotypes don't portray
- black people as skiiers.
-
- In my limited experience I've only seen one skiier on Aspen mountain: Dion
- Warwick. On the bunny slope. But three years on one mountain hardly
- makes a survey. Hell, it hardly makes a data point :-)
-
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- When I mentioned I hoped to get in some early season skiing this year,
- my Vietnamese office mate said "That's awfully white of you, Dave."
-
- Perhaps its a perception problem?
-
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-
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- David Neal -- hdnea@hou281.chevron.com
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- My processes aren't dead! They're only resource impaired!
- Computationally challenged!
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