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- From: carl@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Alexander of Kiev (mka Carl Alexander))
- Subject: Re: Through a looking glass, darkly
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.063353.1955@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Organization: The Rialto
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:33:53 GMT
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- Shay.Wrobel@f302.n374.z1.fidonet.org (Shay Wrobel) writes:
- >
- > -=> Quoting Alex Tewes to All <=-
- >
- > AT> From: u883161@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Alex Tewes)
- > AT> ....
- > AT> I have a question that has been bothering me for a while....
- > AT> ....We only know the richness and variety of the SCA in
- > AT> the Greater Known World from photos and the tales of travellers. In
- > AT> looking at all the photos which have made their way down to us, I
- > AT> notice the complete absence of black faces....
-
- > AT> Martin de Mont Blanc (mka Alex Tewes)
- >
- >Hi there....
- > There is no prejudice in the s.c.a....
-
- I won't say there are no bigots in the Society -- but given how central
- tolerance and open-mindedness are to our ideals of honor and courtesy, I
- suspect that bigoted people find the Society rather uncongenial.
- Still, the Society is certainly not a statistical microcosm of America--
- there are a disproportionately large number of Jews, for instance,
- and of college graduates. Nevertheless, there are minorities here, and
- there always have been: The principal of the Pelican in the East,
- Master El of Two Knives, is Black; the founder of the Great Dark Horde,
- Master Yang the Nauseating, is of Philippine ancestry; the seneschal
- of Carolingia, Master Kobayashi Yutaka, is of Japanese descent -- you
- get the idea.
-
- Alexander of Kiev Carolingia, East
-
- Carl Alexander Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.
- carl@silver.lcs.mit.edu
- alexander@pfc.mit.edu
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