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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
- In-Reply-To: ckincy@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu's message of 15 Nov 92 15:20:54 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:45:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.152054.16788@umr.edu> ckincy@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy) writes:
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- Perhaps a better solution is to lay off everyone and move your business
- to another location that wouldn't have residents who boycott your
- store because you happen to have an employee who is gay. If enough
- people did this, the economy in that region would begin to fail and
- people would wonder why.
-
- If you have problems with *this* method, please note it is similar
- to a boycott of Colorado. Why stay and fight when you can punish them
- *more* by running away?
-
- Because the point of staying and fighting and the point of a boycott
- are the same: We're here, we're not going away, and we're going to do
- whatever we can to change this place for the better.
-
- It's understandably tempting to move away from the heat (listen to me
- talk -- I live in San Francisco, not exactly Oregon, but anyway...),
- and I can't blame people who follow the temptation (I don't know if I
- could have stayed in Oregon over the past year), but it's the people
- who stay and fight who make the difference. Blacks were often told,
- "Why don't you just go somewhere else?" Well, where we live is our
- home. And we can't keep running. At some point Somewhere Else
- becomes Here...
- --
-
- - Ronald Hayden
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