From: crr4574@zeus.tamu.edu (LARUE, CHARLES L.)
Newsgroups: alt.discrimination
Subject: Re: Affirm/Action is WRONG!!   So is Charles Larue!!
Date: 11 Jan 1993 09:12 CST
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In article <C0JyxE.H2K@cs.dal.ca>, kumar@ug.cs.dal.ca (kumar yelubandi) writes...
>>From: cll5685@rigel.tamu.edu (LARUE, CHARLES L.)
>>Subject: Re: Discrimination against whites is rampant
>>Date: 5 Jan 1993 11:38 CST

(Stuff deleted.  Refer to post 7270)


>	Now, to my second point.  You are a racist Charles Larue.  It is
>not merely my saying so.  To suggest that blacks don't care to play
>tennis or hockey, is a severe ignorance of the economics involved in
>partaking said sports (you might throw in golf here, too).  Blacks 
>tend to play basketball, not because they like hoops better than nets, 
>BUT because given lesser economic circumstance than whites as a class
>of people, 'blacks' tend not to have money to purchase the expensive
>accoutrements of the wealthier sports,ie. ice time in an indoor rink,
>memberships at golf courses, tennis courts, the expensive hockey gear,
>$200 tennis racquets, $500 golf clubs, $1000 attitudes, etc.)
> 
>	(Of course, ten people can chip in with five bucks a piece to buy
>a relatively durable basketball...and last I heard, school playgrounds
>are still free)
> 

I guess I would pretty much agree with everything you said until your second
point.  So, I am a racist?  From where do you get this stunning relevation.  I
wish to discriminate against no person.  I think companies which do should be
fined.  And, as you say, there are ways to guard against this.  

As for my being a racist.  I see this as a major problem.  I say something you
disagree with and you call me a racist.  You say something that is the biggest
crock of B.S. that I have ever read by saying that blacks can't afford to play
tennis, but I will try to avoid calling you a racist.  Let me tell you about
when I started playing tennis.  I bought a racket for $12.00.  I could have
gotten a used one for less than that, but what the hell, I splurged. 
Practically every city I have ever been in has a park(s) which have tennis
courts.  My small hometown of 7,000 had 2 parks with several courts.  Blacks
make up a substanial part of the population of my hometown.  I can count on one
hand the number of times that I saw blacks out there playing (although I have
played with them on a few occasions).  Maybe they didn't realize that the
courts were free.  Maybe they thought that they had to buy a $200 tennis
racket.  Or maybe, (my opinion) you are simply an idiot.

Let me give you a piece of advice.  If you disagree with me fine.  If you don't
then don't scream racist or racism.  I have posted nothing which I think
supports your claim.  Or maybe you don't know what racism is.  Regardless, when
you make this unjustified accusation, you destroy your credibility with many
people.  I hear unjustified screams of racism all the time.  I also hear
justified screams of racism.  The unjustified cries (such as yours) really tend
to make people pay less attention to the ones which are justified.  Did you
ever hear the story of the boy who cried wolf?

Let me finish with a littled story about racism.  I recently proctored a final
exam.  We are required to check calculators very closely to make sure students
don't have answers written anyplace on the calculator.  When someone has a
calculator in a case, we have to take it out and check it out.  I had been
doing this for about 15 minutes.  A white girl came through.  She had her
calculator already out of her case.  There were no pockets or flaps anywhere so
all I had to do was look at both sides of it and let her through.  The next
student was a black girl.  She had hers in a case.  There were also three
pockets in this case.  I took it out of the case and checked all of the
pockets.  I treated her no differently than I would have treated anyone else in
the same situation.  I had already gone through the same routine with numerous
white students.  What was her first instinct?  I never figured out exactly what
she said, but she muttered something about racism as she walked away. 

> 
> 
>		Kumar
> 
> 
>Ps:    ...racism of all kinds, against all peoples, is WRONG.
> 
> 
>-- 
>                                ********************************************
>   Kumar Yelubandi               **  A wise man learns more from a fool  **
>   (good wines = good times!)    **  than vice versa...or so they say    **
>   ...in the year 2525...        **           -  Drink up -              ** 



Charles Larue

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