-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Alfred de Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is disgusting, unfair and historically > repudiable. > > With or without their "Kashties" our brothers you > target were unserpentinely contemnt in their edenal > dwelings totally unmindfull of "GREEN CARD > LOTTERIES" before these were shoved down, or up, > their guts.... > Mario replies: > Alfred, Please calm down. I am not targeting anyone. I used "kashties" to a Goan audience to create a visual image of whatever they call what the villagers wear in Africa. I was responding to something George wrote about the shoddy condition of African Americans, which is totally bogus when compared to people anywhere else. 76% of African Americans are classified as middle or upper income in this very competitive environment, by their own admission, the rest are getting all kinds of private and government assistance, and some of the most powerful and influential people in America are African Americans. The point I was making was that none of them have any interest in moving back to Africa. That's not an "attack" on Africa, just a fact. > In case you have missed it, President Bush has pledged $15 BILLION to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa, and is leading the fight to pardon their debt and to reduce or remove the tarriffs that harm their economies. I wish some of you would appreciate this kind of REAL "targeting". > BTW, it is the supposedly liberal Europeans that are fighting Bush's economic proposals and have done little to fight HIV/AIDS when compared to what the US is doing.
