--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, braaahmaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 12/20/05 7:02:05 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > But for a southerner growing up during segregation its hard to > imagine > > > he didn't understand what it meant. > > > > > > Or he is dense. Like someone who grrew up in the 50's and 60's > and > > > doesn't "get" that there was inherent racism in "Aunt Jamaiah" > ads. > > > And to then walk up to a modern day elderly black woman and > say, "You > > > look just like Aunt Jamaiah -- I bet you make great pancakes". > > > > > > Either way, its not a pretty picture. > > > > > > > > > > > > No it's not hard to imagine at all. I grew up in Texas during > > segregation > > > and never heard that rubbing a Negroes' head was done for luck. > > > > > > Ok. If you are saying this is teh first time you have ever heard of > > the practice. Which is odd, I grew up in the north and heard of the > > practice at some point -- probably in college years. Perhaps we > each > > had different levels of social awareness. > > > > > > Howard Stern habitually refers to Spike Lee as a "peanut head". > > Do you think it would be racist of him if he were to give Spike Lee > noogies on the top of his head? >
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