From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Subject: Re: There may be some hope!
Organization: clearer than blir
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:44:32 GMT

In article <4epu97y00WBMI4Bstz@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:

>        You may not beleive this but America is part of God's World.
>Just because Mrs. Winfrey makes her money or Flavor Flav or Big Daddy
>Cane; does mean that everyone else is O.K.. You know Mrs. Winfrey from a
>T.V. show. But, I knew her cousin from Detriot James Henderson(Mo). The
>fact is is that America as society did not hand Mrs. Winfrey her
>opportunity. She struggled and when throught terrible times due to
>rascism and bigotry to get into the hearts of Americans. Read her and
>Her husbans book.

Every thing you say is essentially correct. But doesn't the fact that
she succeeded indicate the level of progress being made in this
country?  No, she wasn't handed anything, why should she have been?
Put it this way, do you think she'd rather leave the US and try
somewhere else, or do you suppose despite it's faults she'd like to
stay right here?

>Here at Carnegie-Mellon University the cost this Universtiy stops the
>Average blackboy on the street from comes HERE. But, naturally it
>dosen't stop me. I teach/tutor Calculus in Homewood; Algebra,trig, and
>Japanese in East Liberty; and Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics II,
>Ceramics, and Japanese on campus to minority Americans for free. So, I
>have, did and will continue to do these and others thing which I don't
>have to defend. So, if I wanted to attack you I would do it over some
>words on a computer. I am not interested in attacking you. It was
>enough to see that you perfer to assumed than to respect.

I assumed nothing. You were the one who assumed I am racist for
attending the University I did. You were the one who assumed that
because I was white I am incapable of human feelings for black people.

I responded via e-mail to your original post. I basically stated that
I was sorry you had such difficulties. That it might have been
different if you'd been in a West Coast city (I still believe that).
But that I didn't like your hostile attitude toward white people. You
went on to assume many things about me from that point. You are the
one incapable of respect... at least when it comes to respecting a
"whiteboy".

Any lack of respect I have shown you is directly related to your
insistance on being blatantly racist towards whites. Perhaps you think
you're not racist because you treat blacks and other people of color
with respect. That's very admirable, but until you get over your
remaining problem with white people, you are, and will remain, a racist.

>Do you think you are so fortunate to be the only human to exert their
>abilities to another human who is less fortunate.

No, I only mention it because it was the last thing you probably
expected a "whiteboy" to be doing with his freetime. Wise up. We're
not all as you would like to think we are. You are the one suffering
from incorrect assumptions. I, on the other hand, am old enough
and smart enough not to do that.

>So, you see Tad, it's awkward of you to assumed that I'am the
>son of some rich Japanese who came to America to fuck around and
>spent money and shit.

I never said that, and I never assumed that. I said that it was
hypocritical of you to dare fault my choice of university when you are
going to one of the most elite universities in this country. You're
applying very poor logic here. It doesn't matter if your parents paid
to get you in there, or if you're paying for it yourself, if you're
going to say I'm a racist because of the school I go to you better
take a good look at your own situation first.

To those who may be tired of this thread: I'm only posting because
Rikiya insists on posting his responses to me without even
including quotes.  I would prefer to speak with him via e-mail, but as
long as he's refused to do it that way, I want everyone to know
exactly what I said so it can stand on it's own merits. Sorry about
any inconvenience.

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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