On Oct 5, 2008, at 9:15 PM, "Beaudoin, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All, > Ray told me to go back and look at one of my messages. > Yikes. It was bad. And many would counsel me to not try to explain > it in that it may just make it worse. But here it is anyway. > > I've run across many Latino peoples lately. It may be my attraction > to futbol (soccer) or it may simply be that there are more here > nowadays. I've taken the opportunity to brush up on my Spanish as I > attempt conversation with them. I have respect for those who've > come here and work hard and I enjoy the conversations I've had with > them. I'm newly single again and contemplating more children with a > good woman at some point. Being that I don't really care about > race, I've dated women from 4 different Spanish speaking countries > in addition to American women. Race does not matter at all while > being a responsible mother to my child is most important. > > I should not have connected Manny and the woman I dated in the > manner I did. It was unfair to both and I'm very sorry. The only > connection I meant was that, of all the Spanish speaking people I've > met in my life, the most difficult dialect to understand is > Dominican. That's all. My date was young, intelligent, beautiful, > and nice. I should not have let my recent animosity toward Manny > spill over onto her. My hearing impairment the frustration of a > loud restaurant combined to put me a bad mood when I wrote that e- > mail. And, I was feeling weird about dating someone so young. > Again, my problem and nothing to do with race. > > So, that's my lame explanation, though true. It's my problem if I > can't hear well and don't understand a given dialect. I was wrong > to write what I did and I'm both embarrassed and humbled by this. > > But those Cubans .... > > okay okay, I'm kidding. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
