"JJ" wrote in message
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Dwight Stewart wrote:



You only say that because I'm white. If that were not the case, you'd
be
saying the same thing to Condoleezza Rice (Nat, Sec, Advisor), Colin
Powell
(Sec, of State), Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Mary Berry (Chair, US Com.
on
Civil Rights), and a very long list of other minorities who think race
and
race issues are very relevant in this country. Why should it be any less
so
for whites? In reality, your open criticism of whites who talk about
race,
without criticism of other races who do the same, only demonstrates your
own
racism towards other whites.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

Lets see, we can have an all black mayors conference, but just listen to
the uproar from all the Jesse Jackson idiots if we tried to have an all
white mayors conference. We can have a Miss Black America contest but
what a howl there would be if we attempted to have a Miss White America
contest. Yea Hans, it is just the whites that are racist.


It behooves all of us to be just as indignant about racism in any venue,
regardless of ethnicity of the racist.

That having been said, I can understand some of the seclusion each race
enjoys from others, IF the purpose is cultural. What is specific to a black
mayors conference are those things specifically related to black issues in
the community(ies) they represent. I am certain that if there were issues
that needed addressing in a "whites only" venue, then you'd see a white
mayors conference and, honestly, I am not so sure there isn't one. What we
may find generally attractive in a representative for the United States in a
Miss America, is totally different from what the Black/Negro/Colored
(depending on the part of society and geographical/historical perspective
you come from) find in a representative specific to Black America.

I also don't see those things as racist and I am wondering if you really do.
I mean, the "race" card--as its so affectionately come to be known--can be
played anywhere. And, there are people just stammering to be offended, no
matter what. I disregard them. I don't see that a all male organization is
necessarily discriminatory, either. Do you? I would hope not and, if you
do not, then why is there a problem for you with a all _________ (whatever
race) organization? What about a sports organization that won't allow
women? What about.....???

Kim W5TIT