From: jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and clueless old white boy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american
Subject: Re: Perceptions, Realities, Perceptions
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:42:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: alice.23475
Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj, curmudgeon and clueless old white boy)
Organization: NJ State Home for Bewildered Terminals

In article <1992Aug17.170214.24593@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
>  Well at least you got asked about your supposed trust fund.
>  I've never even been around such circles to be not permitted
>  to stick around!
Granted.  Still, if you are ever in such circles, you will
find that your race allows you a degree of "difference" that
would never be permitted to a white person.  Actually,
I've never gotten close except on a few occasions when
somebody wanted me around to make their good ol' eastern
liberal mind feel good.  Oh, now, I'm just SOOO thankfull,
yessireebob.

>  You're right.  They won't even get close enough to me
>  to ask about my parent's stock portfolio.  I'm not even
>  in the vicinity of people who hold these contempts.
>  They spot me a mile away and cross the street.
Hmmm, I think we're talking about different people.  The people
I'm talking about only walk from the street to the door,
never any farther, unless they're at their carefully controlled
country club.

And I do not mean that in any sense other than factual.  If you're
using "cross the street" in a euphimistic sense, I'm sorry to
have missed it, but the people I'm talking about would NEVER
let their prejudice show through that directly.  NEVER.  
They'd do it behind your back, and do it in subtle ways intended
to make you "show your lesser breeding", rather than by crossing
the street. (Heck, like I said, they'd never BE on the
street in any major city.)

>  I beg to defer.  I don't see how I'd care to wrap
>  baby strollers around any such hapless males within
>  5 minutes.  9 months of pregnancy isn't something I
>  go through just for the fun of it, and I won't do
>  it for just anybody. 
I wasn't thinking you'd have any of their kids, I was thinking
you'd wrap the baby stroller they *tried* to hand you right
around their neck.   BEFORE there was any issue of even
considering offspring.  Sexism, in case it isn't clear,
is also de-regeur in these circles, and I think you'd simply
gag on it.  I do, and I'm not even the "affected" class.

>  It's much easier for you as a
>  male to wrap baby strollers around available females 
>  in 5 minutes flat.
Huh? What does that mean?


>White:  Anybody with old money who can trace themselves back to the
>		Mayflower, or the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

>Black:  Everyone else.
Well, I wouldn't say "black" or "white".

And, I don't consider the people we're talking about here
white, either, I consider them the arrogant, prejudiced
elite.  Yes, most of them are "white", but most whites
aren't them, and I really don't want the name of my race
used as a label for "old white people in power".  The
"ruling elite" is a pretty good name, actually.  They 
are no more representitive of whites than Saddam Hussein is
of the average Kurd.
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