Kelvo,
Thanks for jumping in. In offering thoughts etc into the fray, I've already been condemned as a racist by at least one person. I only even entered the fray because I hadn't seen you respond yet ;-)
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>From: prestokelvo at yahoo_com [mailto:prestokelvo at yahoo_com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:51 AM
>To: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
>Subject: Caution is the better part of valour.
>
>
>Great Scobbitygoshkins!
>
>Yeah, I didn't appreciate the 'towel-head' comment
>either. But are any of the attacks that have been
>thrown at WS this morning any better? Is calling our
>president stupid any more noble than calling Bin-Laden
>a towel head? Why do we rush to protect those who
>aren't like us while we jump at the chance to be
>vicious to our own? It's terrible and horrible to make
>a stupid comment about a group of people you don't
>know, but it's fine to lash out and shout names and
>insults at an individual for making that unthinking
>mistake? I think we're all better than that.
>
>Fact is, we're all screwed up. We're all saying
>things that are good and true mixed up with things
>that are at best unfounded and too often stupid. WS,
>despite his 'passionate rhetoric', may have actually
>said something worth listening to. Heaven forbid we
>give him that chance.
>
>I guess what I'm saying is that it is very difficult
>trying to carry on conversations with so many people
>who know so damned much. When it comes to these
>matters under discussion, none of us have a corner on
>the truth. The most intelligent among us (Don) and
>those who sometimes dazzle me with their use of the
>language (Ysoie) and all us blokes in between - we are
>all trying to work it out. WE all have strong
>opinions that don't necessarily translate into facts.
>I'm a pretty smart guy and I often have been able to
>state things pretty well, but that doesn't make me
>right.
>
>Discussion is good, but let's give each other a little
>slack. We should ALL stop acting as if it's absurd to
>disagree with our oh-so-rational and educated
>thoughts, or our how-come-you're-too-dense-to-get-it
>diatribes (and I'm speaking of ALL of us) and take a
>little extra time to figure out what we're all trying
>to say, and forgive each other when we go a little off
>the deep end. I'm not condoning any racism,
>xenophobia or anything of the like. I just think
>there are better ways to point them out and correct
>them then to find ourselves guilty of the same kind of
>vile attacks.
>
>Or maybe I just had the wrong flavor Pop-Tarts
>today...
>
>Kelvin
>
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