From: lovegod@wam.umd.edu (Donald Andrew Agarrat)
Subject: Re: WARNING: Stealth African Marauding soc.motss
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:07:12 GMT

In article <txnp66@lynx.unm.edu> anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)  
writes:
} I work to correct current inequalities.

Yeah, okay.  You'll go far by not knowing where those inequalities began and  
how they've been perpetuated.

}  I have versed myself in the problems I work with.  You turned around and 
} accused every "white" person on the net of being a racist.

Dominick, how can you tell a boldface lie like that!  I have not said that I  
hate all Whites!  However, I am NOT going to bite on words to make them sound  
pretty and satisfying for ANYONE!  If anyone here feels like I've alienated  
them just based on what I've said, they didn't need to be my friend anyway.   
I've taken great pains to be VERY clear.  Now, if I were not angry, wouldn't  
the situation appear less serious?

} myself and others.  But you assume culpability of "whites" before you
} know them and find out what they are.  You expect them to prove to you
} that they are worhty of your bestowing your praise to them.  Screw that.

I try not to praise anyone but God.  I let man's actions speak for themselves.
Most of the time, they speak well enough ... and I don't see HOW you can equate  
what I've been saying to your father praising a Black man deep in the  
superficial bliss of assimilation.

} I agree, but you making your broad sweeping statements just take those of
} us doing things and makes us say why bother.  I know why I bother.  

If my comments have made someone change their opinion on why the race problem  
must be solved so that they now feel justified into complacency, do you think  
that someone was really, whole-heartedly doing anything more than saving face?

} And sometimes there are more important things to fight over, like getting 
} food on the table and a place to live, even if it's just a cardboard box. 
} DO you go down to the soup kitchens and help there? DO you work with
} the homeless and try to help them find jobs and shelter and just even
} to get a bath?  Why aren't you talking about the injustices done to them?

Maybe when I'm "comfortable" enough to pick and choose the "special interest"  
groups of my choice to write a check to, I'll keep that in mind.

} Or is it just becuase you find yourself able to go the a school and to 
} live in a dorm that you don't need to concern yourself with that.  Why don't 
} we ever see some of these issues on soc.motss?  Answer me that!

I'm HARDLY in school because of WHITE priviledge.  I'll leave that at that.   
Don't assume that I don't have other concerns.  I am Black first, that is my  
main concern.  Do I have to jump through a certain amount of hoops (defined by  
you) just to be able to say what I've said?  Yeah, that plus 5 cents will give  
you a nickel ... My mother has always told me, "If you don't stand up for  
something, you'll fall for anything."  I cannot stand up for everything simply  
because of my lack of experience and knowledge in certain areas.  But that  
won't stop me for telling what I DO know NOW!

Donald - Nigger Stompin' African!