In light of Colin Powell's position that the fate of the poorer people
of New Orleans was not due to racism, but only failing to realize
that those people had no means for transportation out of the city, it
seems to me that racism and bigotry were not involved. To me it's
significant that that position is held by a highly-respected person of
color.

Walt, W2DU


On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:36:56 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:41:17 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:

A few moments spent perusing a dictionary will show that simply refusing to
take in a storm victim, while abhorrent to me, does not make one a bigot.

from the Oxford English Dictionary:

Bigot. 1598. 1. A hypocrite. 2. A superstitious person - 1664. 3. A
person obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a creed, opinion or
ritual - 1661. Intolerant toward others - 1645.

Hardly seems that the meaning has veered from this in the past 340
years.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC