Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:54 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account > wrote: > > >>>> But think about it: the Jimmy Stewart "we care about our fellow >>>> Americans (on the whole) because we're all on the same team (as >>>> Americans)" generation is dead. >>>> >>> I guess blacks weren't their 'fellow Americans'. Blacks don't seem >>> to romanticize those times like whites do - I wonder why? >>> >> Certainly it wasn't as "good" a time because of discriminations. Are >> they treated better today than they were then? The traditional >> election >> question: "Are you better off now than you were 'x' years ago?" >> Something in me thinks that the former generation (baby-boomers?) >> had it >> better. Just a wag??? >> > > My point was that your characterization of that time as "we're all > on the same team" was not very accurate. It was more like "some of us > are on the team, and the rest can go to hell". > Yes. One should never say "ALL" or "NONE" (but you know we all will at some time or another!). Reminds me of the Star Wars III line where Anakin (Darth Vader) tells Obi-Wan "If you're not with me, you're my enemy.", and Obi-Wan replies "Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes."
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