Jon, Once again, you miss my point, the effects of racism cannot be packaged as "episodic", or reactions such as yours that it's "really not a big deal" tells me that it perhaps you truly don't understand the implications of such offensive comments/behavior and how costly such positions/comments are on our society. I'm not arguing that we discuss this ad nauseum, rather that we as a society begin to truly acknowledge that racism exists, and has caused much pain and will continue to do so. Perhaps if you had offered "well, I hear from you that racism is a difficult issue, and that we can work together to solve this blight", I might have an easier time with "really not big deal" comments such as yours.
Eduardo Parra Cleveland ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Gang, Drugs, Patrols, Ebonics, List Management, Racism > In a message dated 8/8/03 4:40:57 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << I would imagine if someone made one > crack about white Minnesotans, tuna casseroles, or ridiculed anyone who made > fun of someone who used terms such as "uffda", "you betcha", there would be > a > whole bunch of folk responding to such comments. What also offends me is > that there were not a flood of emails admonishing this behavior, > rather "polite Minnesota Nice" hard at work. In effect, silence. >> > > Jon Sez: I would highly doubt any reaction other than "how lame".The > Overwhelming Culture here ( proudly including my old Norwegian self ya know) > has tried to launch ethnic jokes at itself for some time now. Turned out they > were just as pale and bland as the food. Couple a kids from St. Louis Park did > a nice job in "Fargo" but then they weren't members of the O.C. were they now? > We all laughed don't ya know. > I sent the first reaction to Mr. Thai's post and I tried to > incorporate a little humor in it by writing the absolute Whitest, most diabolically > professorial sentence I could come up with. Absolutely no one got it. Ehh. > I accept completely that Tom was trying for humor. It turned out to > be a failed joke. Really not a big deal. Let's get back to whether the Mayor > shaves his own back and other routine threads. > > Jon Gorder > Loring Park > > TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
