hi other folks on the list sent me messages saying i misinterpreted your post (when you were really agreeing!) (im not sure it was the negative pregnants in my case - i think it was because i dashed in and read my email in 15 minutes on my way to another appointment.)
sorry yb ********************************************* Professor Yvette M. Barksdale Associate Professor of Law The John Marshall Law School 315 S. Plymouth Ct. Chicago, IL 60604 (312) 427-2737 (email:) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************** > ---------- > From: Stephen Gottlieb[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: Discussion list for con law professors > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: affirmative action,nepotism and intergenerationaldistribution > of property > > NEGATIVE PREGNANTS. I've found the problem. I didn't write the > [negative] conclusions but everyone has assumed their existence. > Logicians will go to their graves denying their existence but they pop > up like gremlins anyway. Mea culpa. > > Prof. Stephen E. Gottlieb > Albany Law School > 80 New Scotland Ave. > Albany, NY 12208 > 518-445-2348 > FAX 518-472-5878 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/27/03 12:09PM >>> > "In fact Jews and others could not walk through the door in > many areas prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. " > > > Having grown up, quite happily, in a small North Carolina town in the > 1940s and '50s, I can testify from personal experience that there is > simply no comparison between the treatment of Jews and of > African-Americans prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I can remember > one time when I was not allowed to join my many Christian friends in > swimming at a country club pool. That's it for any experienced > anti-Semitism. I also received Duke's highest scholarship, in 1958, at > a time when Duke was still rigidly segregated. (It does me no merit to > admit that that didn't stop me from accepting the scholarship.) Perhaps > things were worse elsewhere in the South, but, frankly, I doubt that > there was a single community, even in the most benighted hamlets in > Alabama or Mississippi, where the treatment of Jews even came close to > the daily humiliations visited upon African-Americans. > > sandy >
