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- From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.210005.12788@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- References: <1992Dec15.090227.1@milori.ccit.arizona.edu> <1992Dec16.191319.26213@oracle.us.oracle.com> <61NU02.A2f3901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 21:00:05 GMT
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- In article <61NU02.A2f3901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@cd.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.191319.26213@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@uucp
- >(Michael Friedman) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec15.090227.1@milori.ccit.arizona.edu>
- >>ohall@milori.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
-
- >>> be affected. Again I ask Why?
-
- >>1. Union seniority rules
- >>2. Blacks are more likely to work in the hardest hit sector - low
- >>skill, low wage work.
-
- >But why are black folks the ones with little senority and low skill
- >work.
-
- Because of past racism and present stupidity.
-
- >You talk about how your grandparents came here and made a life.
-
- No I didn't. My parents came.
-
- >The were
- >screwed over in Romania, not here in the US. We are talking about here,*NOT*
- >Romania. If you got problems with how they were treated take it up with the
- >Gov't of Romania.
-
- >My family got *FUCKED* over here and I live here.
-
- So what? You know damned well that reparations aren't in the cards so
- why does it matter where our ancestors got fucked?
-
- >The way black folks were
- >treated 30 years ago mild? Well let's see, black men hung for dating white
- >women in the south. Civil Rights workers disappear while driving down
- >country roads, etc. the list goes on.
-
- Sure. So? It was mild compared to what other suffered. Try
- complaining about that to a Cambodian or Vietnamese. Watch them laugh
- in your face.
-
- >The reason why black folks are the hardest hit during hard econi=omic times is
- >due to the Jum Crow laws ad unwritten rules that wouldn't let us into the
- >unions, the colleges, etc. So if you leave the unions like they are, ie.
- >last hired - first fired, then black folks will continue to get screwed over.
-
- Sure. So? These things are gone. What are you going to do tomorrow?
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