Re: just one final clarification

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 13:20:39 MDT

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    --- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
    > At 11:14 PM 7/24/03 -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:
    >
    > >>Damien writes
    >
    > >> someone known to the company comes in and starts spraying one
    > >> wall, using liquid excrement, with words such as HOW ABOUT
    > >> LYNCHING ALL THE [NIG]---------?.
    >
    > That [NIG] was added by Lee. I certainly didn't have Nigerians in
    > mind. (I assume that's the group Lee was hinting at.) Nor the
    > Niggardly Rich. The allegorical victim slot was deliberately left
    > open, to be filled in by the reader. I originally wrote AUSTRALIANS,
    > but decided that was too local to convey my meaning. And the most
    > recent lynching I recall hearing about in the USA involved the
    > murder of a white gay youth (presumably for the greater good), so
    > the first two letters of Lee's interpolation would have been
    > inappropriate anyway.

    Actually, there have been a number of lynchings here since then,
    according to FBI figures, and the vast majority are committed by blacks
    against other blacks... Like the use of the N word, lynching has become
    absorbed into US black culture as an internally acceptable social
    mechanism. It's only when whites use the same tools that it becomes
    offensive to the black community.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
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