From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 08:00:59 MST
In a message dated 3/18/2003 1:15:49 AM Central Standard Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com writes: I wonder if Powell had become President whether
those getting great emotional satisfaction from trashing U.S. foreign policy
would be making jokes about blacks? Think so? Or is that verboten, while
Texans are fair game?
Lee,
I think you are right. Actually they think Texans are fair game.
Going back to Powell for an example -- the "Hate America First" crowd would
make jokes based on the typical and objectionable stereotype of the American
black. They would never understand the social subtleties that make Powell a
member of an entirely different group. The same goes for President Bush.
President Bush apparently lives in Texas by choice and is very proud of the
state but insofar as I know he is a long way from being a stereotypical
Texan. His parents were from the Northeast, he was educated in prep schools
in the Northeast and he has an MBA from Harvard. But to repeat, he does seem
to genuinely prefer Texas and Texans as his choice of abode as well as
friends.
But Lee, you went straight to the core of the problem. The Hate
America First crowd is not prepared to deal with us on the basis of reality.
They make up a fantasy and then expect us to agree with their delusions.
Look at what Humania is saying about the Patriot Act. The Act if ever
enacted as presented to us by the ACLU is a monstrosity. But the idea the
thing will ever see the light of day as a law is someone's pipe dream. If
they think that monstrosity will ever stand the immediate court challenges,
should it get passed into law, then they are not having a pipe dream they are
on hashish. But Humania either doesn't know enough about the American system
to know that or he prefers to pretend so.
The same goes for Artillo and his representation of President Bush in
Texas dialect. Artillo did a good job of spelling the common idea of what
that dialect sounds like but it has nothing to do with reality.
Ron h.
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