From: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 17 Nov 1992 07:40:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) says:


>
>I agree with you completely, Ted, and since none of those socially
>advanced Solons at Rose-Hulman are likely to put their money where their
>mouths are, I posted their little racist diatribe to
>soc.culture.african.american for them.  It disgusts me when the trendy
>subject in campus humor centers around harassment of the hearing impaired
>and race hatred.
>



I'll bet you and Ted Frank were the kind of kids who used to
enjoy destroying anthills and frying bugs with magnifying glasses.
You know, immaturely spiteful.  I used to be like that too
but at least I grew up and changed my childish spitefulness.


Yep, because of your invite, I went over to soc.culture.african.american
to see what they'd say about your post.  Seems like there was 
no response, eh?  Or rather,the only lifeblood of the omar-issue
was Ted Frank's and your posts.  Tell me, did you feel like you
were kicking a dying horse, trying to get it up to trot even
though it was the least bit interested in your actions???

Anyway, I don't think that you needed to assume that every
Soc.culture.African.American would be ballistic over this issue.  Sure
it makes fun of the way some jive-speaking people talk, but is 
it that big of a deal?  Look at the [lack of] supportive response you
got. 


For sake of comparison, look at something as simple as the Mario
Brothers video game.  Are we to think that, like the jive-filter
programmer and user, the Mario Brothers programmer(s) take humor
in the fact that ALL Italians are named Mario and have funny little
handlebar mustaches and are carpenters who act like bumbling 
idiots, knocking their head into mushrooms and all other kinds
of things?  Hey, we're all differnent and that makes life interesting.
To this day I hear people speak jive-talk, and I sometimes have
to ask a person to repeat him/herself because I couldn't understand
their phrasing.  I sometimes hear two people speaking jive-english 
and it's amazing to me that they understand each other.  It's 
out there, it's a dialect that is used today, and doggone it,
it's sometimes funny to me to think that these people, whose snippets
of conversations I accidentally overhear, understand each other!!
It amazes me!  Yep the jive filter is funny to me, and I can say
from the bottom of my heart that I am not a racist.  You may think
I am, but it's my opinion that this world will end before
everyone thinks alike and noone gets offended by someone else.

Anyway, sorry that it rained on your expectant parade of 
band-wagon-jumping soc.culture.A.A'ers.

NOT!!!

Later!

B.

By the way, after reading Omar's response somewhere up there, I 
agree with anyone who thinks that it's time to lay off the
Omar stories UNLESS...

1.  He gives the nose-up to those previous alt.folklore.college
    posters ho will hopefully  try to inform him of his 
    annoying behavior.  After all, he asked for help.

and/or

2.  Omar in return post some stories about his "attackers" since
    all's fair in love and war.



Later again!

Send all flames to me!  My room has an outside wall and it gets
cooooold in Cleveland this time of year!
-- 
Branimir Dokic
Radio-Telivizija-Beograd