>From: "Rusty Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "REH Fans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [rehfans] Howard and racism
>Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:40:55 -0500
>
>[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
Ask someone that lives in Memphis, Tennessee. There is an unbelievable
level of reverse racism in this crappy little town. God, what a boring
subject.
Dennis
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