Mr. Robson uses a not so sly method of putting words in my mouth, then 
attacking me for something I didn't say.  What I said in the text of my post 
is
what I meant to say.  The "subtext" that Mr. Robson talks about is the
product of his own imagination and ignorance.  

-Doug Mann, King Field

In a message dated 5/16/2002 7:35:19 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> I'm sure a smart guy like Mr. Mann, who has a long history of chastising 
the 
>  MPS on the basis of ability grouping and other complaints, knows what he 
is 
>  doing when he draws an analogy between Denny's, a service company with one 
> of 
>  the most notoriously racist histories in American corporate annals, with 
the 
> 
>  people who work within the Minneapolis Public Schools. It is a not so sly 
> way 
>  of saying that the MPS is racist and that if it stopped its racist 
behavior 
>  then matters would improve. If that wasn't a subtext of what Mr. Mann 
>  intended to say then his communication skills are on the fritz. 
>  My experience with MPS personnel, black, white and whatever, is that, if 
>  anything, they are less racist than the population and society at large. 
Yes,
>  
>  I'm a white male with a white male child, but I can only tell you what I 
> know 
>  and experience. Rather than Mr. Mann's passive-aggressive inference, I'd 
> like 
>  to ask the list straight out how they feel the MPS does in matters of 
>  race--and I'm not talking about test scores.
>  
>  Britt Robson
>  Lyndale
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