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To: epicure who wrote (4934)	2/5/2001 9:54:56 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 82486

I certainly don't blame or hate non-virulent racists. What I'm suggesting is that your definition of racist retards your accomplishing your objectives and you might want to reconsider it. I think that's what Bland was getting at, too. Being called a racist is an exceptionally hurtful thing. Right up there with child molester. I don't know anyone who would not be pained by that label and do most anything to avoid it. That label should be hurtful. If you apply it to people of good will, you're trivializing it. It's important to leave the sting in that word so that people will think twice about their attitudes and behaviors. Racist vs. virulent racist doesn't cut it. I think you acknowledge the truth- that most of us (perhaps all) make assumptions about other races. My white colleagues are more articulate than my black colleagues. I just made that statement. Does that make me a racist? Do I think that blacks have some inherent defect? Do I fail to recognize those of my black colleagues who are very articulate, indeed? Do I treat my less articulate white colleagues any differently than my less articulate black colleagues? When I'm introduced to a new black colleague, do I assume that that individual will be less articulate? Do I think this observation in my office has anything in the world to do with your colleagues or whites and blacks who live and work anywhere else in the world? The answer to all those questions is no. If someone outside my office observes that spokespeople for the office tend to be white and questions it, how do we deal with that question without expressing what you would call racist statements? How else could we deal with the issue? I just think that the indiscriminate use of the word "racist" isn't a good idea. Karen

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