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: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:19:22 GMT

In article <9pnpqr@lynx.unm.edu> anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)  
writes:
}  Excuse me, but I think you need to read a little history of Africa Donald. 
} Slavery was going on by blacks on blacks for thousands of years, and by  
whites
} on whites for thousands of years.  Yes, in the Americas it becaume race 
} oriented, but that does not mean that because someone today is white that
} they perpetuate the misdeeds of the past.  Granted, many do, but many do not.

Try MOST do and some do not, because if you aren't doing anything in your own  
little world to CORRECT those past fallacies that enable you to live so well  
and free, you're contributing more than a Klansman to the problem.

} DOn't alientate your friends and the people who do care and will help. 
} How can anyone shout from an ivory tower?  Only as much as you are shouting
} from your obsidian tower.  Get off your guilt and hate trip already, why
} don't you learn how to be a part of the solution instead of the problem.  
} You could start by learning about yourself and how to deal with yourself.  

I DON'T alienate my friends!  I let my White AND Black friends know where I'm  
coming from off the bat!  That's why I know my friends are true friends.   
Please clue me in as to what I should feel guilty for ... I think one must  
verse oneself well in the problem before one tries to solve it.

}  Well, with that attitude, you won't get many pleasant surprises.  How do 
} you feel when people don't give you the benefit of the doubt?  And now you
} expect to treat other people like shit and for them to bow to you and 
} respect you?  No way man, not if you paid me!  I respect people because
} they deserve it.  Not becuse of their skin color.  

I let the chips fall where they may.  If you're White and it appears to me that  
you are doing the right thing, my hat goes off to you.  I've never said  
anything contrary to that.  The problem is, how many Whites do I see in my  
world doing the right thing?  How many Whites are like yourself, all too  
willing to ignore the past, and in that ignorance are somehow going to "create"  
a glorious new future out of thin air?

} Donald, we all have a lot to gain.  Sorry you don't see it.  Sorry you don;t  
} feel it. 

No, I don't feel it.  I know there are White people out there doing the right  
thing and caring from the bottom of their hearts and actually DOING things, but  
they are horrifically outnumbered by their "comfortable" counterparts ...

} It's not your anger that offends, it's your turning it on people who haven't 
} done anything to you to deserve it.  It's how you express it, not that you 
} express it.  ANd I don't think anyone here has every said they think the 
} status quo is just fine and dandy.  In fact I hear a lot to the contrary.  
} Wake up out of your blindness.

Just make it sound a little nicer?  Words are one thing, feelings are one  
thing, but actions last even after you are dead.  And if you're not doing  
anything, the status quo IS just fine and dandy.

Donald - Nigger Stompin' African!
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