From: anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)
Subject: Re: WARNING: Stealth African Marauding soc.motss
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:03:04 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Oct13.132136.27014@wam.umd.edu> lovegod@wam.umd.edu (Donald Andrew Agarrat) writes:
>In article <h4mpxja@lynx.unm.edu> anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)  
>writes:
>}  What is considered non-white?  That's my question.
>
>For the most part, White = Euro-American.  But, you can also add anyone who can  
>even pass for White, such as even some Blacks can do.
 See, and that's not my definition, nor many others I know.  
>
>} Let's get a grip here and look at what soc.motss is, not what it isn't.  Then
>} we can see how to make it more of what it is, a safe, protective playground.
>} And like any playground, the kids taunt and tease, and then when someone
>} falls down, they help pick them up.  SO, my lastpoint is tag, you're it!
>
>That sounds so good in theory.  It almost makes me forget that the reason I'm  
>light-skinned is because some fucking White bastard was fucking one of my  
>ancestors.  Oh well, I guess because she was his property and he paid taxes on  
>her, that was Okay ... Wake up!  This is no fucking Fantasy Island I'm talking  
>about!
 I am awake.  I've been shot at for being gay, I've been harrassed, harrangued
and spat upon.  I had my dorm room door set on fire, why becuase I was openly
gay.  You aren't the only person here who has had bad expereinces because of
who they are.  Oh did I also forget all the times I get beaten up in 
high school because I was a Dego?  I stopped counting.  I'm sorry
you live in an area that is so repressive for you, but you're not the
only one so stop giving us this righteousness shit about how bad a life you've
had.   Grow up and deal with it.  Noone says it'll be easy.  Quite the
contrary.  You want an environment that works for you, the one you're in 
doesn't.  You have several choices.  The one I chose was to change my 
environment by first moving to New Mexico.  The second was to also 
change my environment by getting involved in groups that did things to 
help people like the GLSU (now LBGA) at the uninversity here and help
push through additions to our non-discrimination clause to include 
lesbigays.  Right now they're working on giving employees' 
domestic partners benefits.  WHy because people are trying and working on 
it instead of just bitching and complaining and violating other peoples
rights.  I'm not talking about Fantasy Island.  I'm talking about life
and the real world and it's a shitty place lots of time, but you need
to learn how to deal with it and how to make it work for you.  And I
don't mean giving up your way of life, but learning how to live it 
with the rest of the world.   I had a friend here who couldn't get a 
job for which he was extremely well trained simply because he was white and 
not Hispanic, so he ended up having to move because he couldn't find work
here.   

  SO tell us Donald, what are you going to do to change things?  Give up? 
lie down and let the world walk over you.  It sounds like that's what you're 
doing.  
Flapjack,


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