Re: [rehfans] Howard and racism

[Steve Trout]

Yeah, we are supposed to think apes are a lesser creature.  At least in the 30's we were. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:22 AM Subject: Re: [rehfans] Howard and racism In a message dated 1/3/02 3:00:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But they attempted no reprisal, nor did they accept Conan's urgent invitation to approach within reach of the bloody chain in his hand. Presently, grunting in their ape-like speech, they lifted the senseless black and bore him out like a sack of wheat, arms and legs dangling.  They used his key to lock the door behind them, but did not remove it from the gold chain that fastened it to his girdle.  They took the torch with them, and as they moved up the corridor the darkness slunk behind them like an animate thing. Their soft padding footsteps died away, with the glimmer of their torch, and darkness and silence remained unchallenged To see this as against all blacks rather than these few blacks apparent in this story seems to me to perhaps be in error.  Just because these few blacks have an ape like speech is not necessarily racist or even derogatory unless one thinks apes as a lesser creature.