I think we can let your post stand as the last statement for the other
250 million of your fellow citizens who are not so lucky also. <geeze>
--Tom
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>
> Hello.
>
> I'm done with this topic after this post. What I've fought against in this
> thread is the gall exhibited by some who only know the United States from a
> distance, or only from what they've heard-or read and in the case of one, a
> person whose admitted knowledge of the US comes from his studies in a
> European University! What cheek, what hubris, what Euro-arrogance! Some know
> us only by what they see in exported half hour and one hour television
> comedies or crime shows, shows that bear little resemblance to the real life
> in America.
>
> My nuclear Afro-Arab Muslim family gathered last month in New York City
> (Brooklyn) for Ramadan. Among the older siblings there was a Computer systems
> program director, another hospital (computer) systems engineer, the 60
> year-old "baby" sister who clocked nearly $94,000 this year and me, the elder
> sibling, a former publisher-teacher. All are married, with an accumulated 118
> years of marriage between us, all except our widowed sister married to their
> one and only first loves.
> There were at least 3 Platinum, 8 Gold and a plethora of other credit cards
> among the four of us, something utterly unthinkable for people of color just
> 50 years ago.
> Among our parents and we siblings, including inherited wealth, there has to
> be 30 million dollars in real and other property, also unheard of even 25
> years ago!
> All that from people of color, who, just 70 years ago, when our former slave
> grandparents were still alive, would be thought of as sewer sludge, (not that
> some don't think that now).
> Our "poor" are evident to those who would look, but what they won't see is
> the poor, educating themselves and their children, pulling themselves up by
> their proverbial bootstraps.
>
> As infamous, (meanwhile extravagantly rich) Black American fight promoter Don
> King is fond of saying:
> "Only in America!!"
>
> Mafud
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