--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Barry wrote:] > > When this reverse discrimination is done just to win > > a silly argument and prove one's out-of-control ego > > "right," it's almost more offensive than when it's > > done out of true hatred. > > This exchange is starting to take a hard turn because > nobody is either an expert on the topic or they did > not live back then in the deep south. One thing is > true, and that is that history is re-visionist. What > we say happened "back then" is not necessarily so.
Peter, with respect, Barry has sucked you into a made-up version of this exchange. Barry has *given* it the "hard turn" you mention all on his lonesome. Nobody here has taken the stance Barry is arguing against. It's a big fat straw man of Barry's own creation. Go back and read the posts. The only two people in this discussion to say anything about "what happened back then" are in agreement *with Barry* that discrimination against blacks wasn't absolute. Bear in mind where this started: Shemp's claim that Al Gore Sr. was a segregationist. Because this notion is entirely contrary to the known facts of Gore's record, Shemp is left to support his claim with only the vanishingly unlikely possibility that the Gores (and their nanny, who was black) lied about having to eat at whites-only restaurants on their trips from Nashville to D.C. Tell me *that* attempt to play the race card in order to smear Al Gore Jr. isn't offensive. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
