[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Funny, I agree with this part....your conclusion...so how do you go to such a logical end but HAVE to make a snide snotty remark about "us" not having experienced racism???
Because virtually no white person I have ever met
has ever been truly a "victim" of racism (and virtually every Howard fan I have
met or corresponded with has been white -- Charles Saunders, a notable
exception, saw the racism in Howard's work but accepted it for what it was, a
product of the time and place). At worst we may have been in fear for our
personal safety a time or two, but we can beat a hasty retreat back to "our"
kind. I have a good friend who was the son of missionaries, and who grew
up literally fighting for his survival in godforsaken places around northern
Africa. *He* experienced real racism (or more properly, ethnic
hatred). People who have been treated rudely by African-American clerks at
the DMV have not. Mind you, I am not about to get into a pissing match
with you over how *real* your own experience of racism has been, since I do not
know anything about it. If you have truly experienced racism on the same
everyday level that blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, and other
non-whites do, then you have every right to include yourself out of my
"us". But I have been around Howard fandom for a while, met a lot of folks
around the country, and there are precious damned few who can claim any kind of
"victimization" on the basis of race or ethnicity.
Rusty
