Cindy-
Thanks for your post. It cracked me up! I REALLY do have a sense of humor
about all this and I appreciate you reminding of this after my knee jerk
reaction to the topic of discussion. Many of the things you say touch my
heart as well as my funny bone and that's cool.
Michael
NP-Oh Very Young-Cat Stevens (I just love my Sonicnet)
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To: Michael Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: blackness, now NJC
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> Michael -
> My one campaign promise.....
> I've always sworn that when/if i'm elected God that I'll make
> everyone a delicious cafe au lait color so that we'll have to
> find some new reasons to hate each other. This racial thing is
> getting really tiresome.
> And while I say this somewhat tongue in cheek (I mean, I'm not
> really qualified to be God, I don't suppose), and while I have
> nothing to complain about directly (since you can't look much
> more WASP than me), know that I've watched sooo many friends
> struggle with all of the race issues that stubbornly still cling
> here in the South and that I'd love to be part of the answer.
> As such, I teach my child to love people's hearts and their minds
> and not their skin or their appearance, and I teach her to
> appreciate the entire spectrum of creation, not just the parts
> that she can see in her mirror.
> I suppose it's human nature to exalt ourselves. It's just too
> bad that the other side of that coin is too often that we
> belittle those that are "other." Maybe my OTHER hero, Dr. Suess,
> covers that topic best in his story about the Sneeches.
> Anyhow.....
> Thanks for talking about it.
>
> Cindy
