--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have any black friends? Ask them where they had lunch > yesterday. If it is a place where you have ever eaten yourself, you > will understand the difference between legally sanctioned prejudice > (especially the version supported by religious beliefs) and people > acting like dickheads to each other without the support of the social > system. Getting rid of Jim Crow Laws in the South did a lot of good > even though it wasn't the laws that caused prejudice, it was the > people's ignorance. But the difference is that now black people have > legal protection from those prejudices. It isn't perfect, but if you > hang out with any black folks you will understand that it is way way > better. People in the South had to integrate schools at the point of a > gun. People are still prejudiced, but I can have lunch at the same > table with black friends. Better. > > As far as India is concerned, you don't have to trust Turq, read some > Gandhi. He knew a thing or two about how the caste system effects > people's lives in India. > Ever heard the expression, "throwing the baby out with the bath water"? This is what I see with those who would condemn the caste system. The same mentality that ceaselessly goes after Maharishi and his efforts. The product of coarse intellects who can only see the black or white of any situation, who must pronounce something either 100% good or 100% bad. (Except themselves of course, who are oh so complex and multi-faceted...).
What happened to striving for ideals? Again I call this criticism of the Indian caste system racist. Why? Because those who criticize it are doing so because it is Indian. If not, they would find greater fault with our US democracy, a system that allows the most incompetent, mean spirited dick-heads to run the most powerful country in the world. You see no problem with that? No, let's knock the caste system instead, something we barely understand, have never lived within, and are judging based on its worst excesses. Better yet, some on this board have even wholly imagined why the caste system was "invented"! Amazing! I am now waiting for this same source to enlighten us as to why the wind, sun and clouds were "invented". Looks to me like a couple of fools on the hill need to get their feet on the ground.
